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Give us facta. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 7. 1887. Conine Events.

Omaha Fair, Sept. 510. Soldiers Reunion, Omaha, Sept. 510. Nebraska State Fair, Lincoln, Sept 9-1C.

Fair at Schuyler Sept. 2124. Platte County Fair at Columbus, Sept 2730. Fair at Albion Oct. 4 Republican Stato Convention, Lincoln, Wednesday, October 5th.

Platte county is entited to 6 delegates. Osborn Queen Victoria has House for Balmoral Castle. left Emotion sways a far larger multitude than can be influenced by cold logic Strawberries in every month in the year except January at San Francisco. Mrs. Cleveland can harness her horse and she is not ashamed to do it.

The United States chew, smoke and Bnuff every tobacco. year 8256,000,000 worth of Mrs. Grant is occupying her Long Branch cottage with her son. Col. Fred Grant, and his family.

A book has been written "for middle-aged women." It will have no readers. Women are either young or old. Austria produced the largest nugget of gold ever discovered. It weighed 136 pounds and was found at Ballarat The Springfield Republican would support Robert T. Lincoln for president, but he has no desire to be a candidate.

A brisk earthquake shock was experienced at the City of Mexico, August 29, agitating houses and making people dizzy. Congressman Bradt of Virginia warmly favors Mrs. Hancock, widow of Gen. Hancock, for the Washington post-mastership. Colorow and his band are reported back at the agency, and say they want no moro fighting.

Everything is quiet now and Indian chiefs all counsel peace. It is stated in an exchange that the editor of the Grand Island Independent has been arrested for criminal libel upon a warrant sworn out br W. H. Michael. Miss Gahrielle M.

Greeley, is said to be the only surviving member of Horace Greeley's family who some years ago lought her father's farm and house at Chappaqua. Tnn Hour mill of W. E. Seek at Kewanee, burned the other night It was one of the finest roller mills in that part of the state. The property was valued at $40,000.

Mrs. Belle Feelt, an insane inmate of the county jail, Clarion, was cremated the other day in her cell, the result of a fire she had kindled from paper torn from the walls. A pecuIjIae plan, by which a portion of the government's surplus money may be used, is proposed in the suggestion that letter postage be reduced to one cent. The postal department of the government has never produced a sur-: plus of revenue, and has never been run for that purpose. The policy has been to reduce postage as soon as the revenue began to approximate expenditures.

The policy proposed of one cent postage would be the most extreme yet pursued by the post office department. The part which cheap postage has played in the development of the past twenty-five years is not generally realized. There can be no harm in continuing in the same direction still further. One of the chief advantages to be derived from a change to one cent postage would be to largely do away with postal cards. The extent to which these are used at present shows that one cent postage would be appreciated.

Albany Exjtress. The news from the fight with Colorow comes from Denver and is represented to be a tolerably hard fought battle between the Utes and the state troops, under Major Leslie, of Leadville, Sheriff Kendall's posse and Pritchard's scouts; it was one of the hottest fought battles ever waged against the Indians in the west. Ten Indians are reported killed and wounded, one white man killed and five wounded. Both sides fought in true Indian style. The Indians retreated, and late reports say they have gone to the reservation.

The Btate troops are reported to have met five companies of colored troops from Fort Duchene, and that Colorow and the Indian horse thieves will be arrested. If it be true that the Utes have gone to the reservation, the worst of the Ute war is over. Col. Babcock, of Chicago, a highly respectable dealer in lumber, died a short time ago from the effects of a pistol shot wound which it is understood was fired by Miss Sarah Dodge but never fully ex plained by Col. Babcock previous to his death.

It is intimated by the friends and attorneys of Miss Dodge that if she is to be prosecuted for murder that her friends will insist on the defense that she killed Babcock in defense of her honor. And the general belief prevails among the relatives of Col. Babcock that the shooting was purely accidental, and if shown to be such it would be a cruelty to prosecute Miss Dodge for murder. She voluntarily entered into $10,000 bonds to answer any charge the grand jury may bring against her. State factory inspectors, Frances and Connelly, of New York, have made their first finance report.

They find an alarming amount of child labor in factories, over 1,200 children less than sixteen years old being employed in the Harmony cotton mills at Cohoes alone. There is a corresponding amount of illiteracy. Fully one-third of the affidavits made by the parents were signed with a cross, and their children have no opportunity to acquire any education. Child immigrants from Europe are actually better informed than the working children of this state. T.

G. Knott of New Albany, Inch, was arrested the other day on a charge of using the United States mails for fraudulent purposes. He sent letters the other day to Sumpterville, Fbx, offering to sell a supply of ten dollar counterfeit bills at a big discount The letters were returned to the chief of police, who arrested Knott 'when he went to the post office for his mail. During the debate in the house of commons the other evening, Sexton said he believed Ireland was the only country in the world where, with a steady decreasing population, there existed a steady increasing police force to overawe the people. In the house of commons, after nine hours of discussion, the vote for the Irish constabulary was carried, 107 to 50.

a democratic editor -The The democrats of Iowa have nominated a state ticket and expressed confidence in the integrity and ability of President Cleveland's administration, including vetoes, etc It is stated in an exchange that the total eclipse of the sun on the 26th of August, was visible over a belt about 150 miles wide from Berlin east to Japan and out into the Pacific Public interest has been revived in the Haddock murder case at Sioux City. Judge Wakefield is presiding over the district court and has assigned Mun-chrath's case first for trial. The Ohio wool growers' association held a meeting the other day at Columbus, in which they expressed a desire for proper protection on that article to the producers of the country. It is stated among the foreign news that the English government is preparing to enforce the crimes act That Davitt and O'Brien are to be vigorously prosecuted for stirring up sedition. A crowded theater at Exeter, England, burned Monday night 130 bodies have been removed.

About 30 women were burned. The flames overtook the people, who were wedged in an immovable mass, and roasted them to death. Second Comptroller BuTLERof the treasury department wants a number of army paymasters to settle up their old accounts at once. Some of them are getting largely in arrears and do not appear inclined to make settlement quickly. Judge Reeves of Bloomington, HL, has admitted to bail in the sum of 31,000 Timothy Coughlin, section foreman of the Toledo, Peoria Western, who was held responsible for the Chatsworth wreck by which nearly 100 lives were lost body or a Chinaman was found 1 lying along the Chicago Alton railway track near Gilliam, Mo with his left arm and neck broken and a handkerchief stuffed in his mouth.

It is thought he was thought he was robbed and thrown from the night train. It is believed by a good many people of both political parties of Maryland that the Gorman-Higgins plan of running the state is a disgrace to American politics, and an effort will be made on the part of some democrats in Maryland to get rid of the combination. Tn pension office at Washington has information that Henry S. Anderson, of Washington county, Ark, has been convicted of six separate offences against the pension laws; for taking illegal fees, presenting fraudulent papers and forg-jmg evidence. The finding of the general court martial which tried Captain Cyrus N.

Gray, twenty-fifth infantry, has leen acted upon by the President Captain Gray was found guilty of conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline, by appearing at inspection at Fort Meade, and for duty as officer of the day, while drunk. The sentence of the court was dismissal from the military service, and the President approved the sentence. His dismissal will take place Sept. 1. The citizens of New York claim to know that recently about $1,500,000 of gold was shipped from New York to San Francisco, and that but for this exceptional movement the surplus reserve of the banks would have shown in increase of over $2,000,000.

The amount of gold gone to California is, however, more than offset by the arrival of $2,249,184 on tne Umhna and La Gasaoigne the other morning, thus making the total imports since July 23, $5,232,079. A report comes from Columbia, S. that" it is probable the losses of the rice crop will exceed $100,000, tho estimate made two weeks ago. There is said to be a very serious question now before the rice planters. It is what disposition to make of colored laborers on their plantations, until the first of next year.

There is no way. for them to earn a living. If nothing is done for them during the next four months they will starve. We suppose that, in the interest of harmony for the party, the Platte Center Argus, the organ of the independent democracy of Platte county, has the fol-lowingto say: "One of the most difficult offices to fill this fall i the county treasnrership. It is unsafe to put any man in the position unless he is a good accountant.

The mere fact that a man is a fellow who will "set them upland crack vulgar jokes, does not go to show that he can keep the various funds and accounts in the treasurer's office correct," Now and then pokes out his head and remarks rebel flag boom has about died out, and schreechers are silent." But the fact remains that profound silence upon the question is wise discretion for Democrats. It was a big blunder of a blundering man and his smartest act was when he crawfished. Inter-Ocean. The Louisville Courier-Journal frankly admits that "republican sentiment is growing in the mountain counties" of Kentucky. The Courier-Journal says that "there is no question about it," and adds, "It is highly probable that the next congressional delegation "from this state will contain four republicans." Ex.

Rev. Dr. Joseph Parker of the city temule. London, who for years was a bosom friend of Henry Ward Beecher, arrived in New York the other morning. It is understood that while here he will deliver a eulogy on Beecher at the academy in Brooklyn, on Oct 4th next, under the auspices of the Beecher statue fund.

Gladstone has written a reply to the Duke of Argyle's recent attack. He says: "The Duke of Argyle is an old friend whose attacks I prefer bearing silently. I do not excuse tyranny but I wsh to have the National League dealt with legally and not by arbitrary decision of the viceroy or Secretary for Ireland." Gen. Belknap has a son who some years ago wanted to take a clerkship in a Washington department, but his father begged him to do anything else that was honorable. He hired himself to a railway company as brakeman, and stuck to it He has just been appointed assistant superintendent of the road.

Ex, S. McGhee, of Abbeville county, S. attempted to interfere with the management of his father's household affairs, and a quarrel resulted, in which the father threw a boot at the son, when the son rushed upon his father and with a large knife cut his throat The old man died instantly, and the son fled. Bishop Wm. L.

Harris, of the Methodist Episcopal church, died at his home in New York, of heart disease, at 5:20 on on the evening of the 2d inst He began his career as a minister in 1836, and it is said of him that he had circumnavigated the globe and visited many lands in the interest of missionary work. George C. Deals, postmaster at West Point, Carbon county, charged with embezzling $500 and $600 of the funds of the office, was given a hearing before U. S. Commissioner Kirkpatrick in Eaton, and held in $2,000 bonds for trial at the United States court Deals was appointed in 18S5.

Michael Davitt addressed the Bray branch of the league the other day. He said if England imprisoned men for resisting the injustices of landlordism and exercising the rights of free speech, the country would be steeped to the lips in crime during the coming winter. Patents granted to citizens of Nebraska during the past week, and reported expressly for the Journal by C. A. Snow patent lawyers, opp.

U. S. patent office, Washington, D. C. E.

Ware, Omaha, injector; W. H. Tyler, David City, corn husker. Mrs. Sarah Jackson, wife of Andrew Jackson, and mistress of the White House during President Jackson's second term, died at "The Hermitage" on the 23d ult, aged eighty-one years.

A report comes from London the other day that there had been 116,000 of gold withdrawn from the Bank of England for shipment to America. Rev. David Seymour, of the M. E. church at Janesville, and Mrs.

Fannie Henry, wife of the editor of the Janesville Argus, were arrested the other day in New York charged with adultery. They had eloped sometime ago and sailed for Europe, and finding they were pursued by Henry, doubled on their trail by coming to New York. The detectives who made the arrest found the run-aways in the steerage. The superintendent of the recruiting service at Washington City has been ordered to send thirty recruits to Fort Snelling, for assignment to the twelfth infantry, and fifteen colored cavalry recruits to such posts in the department of Arizona as the commanding general of the department shall designate for assignment, to the tenth cav-alrv. Randall Blakeslee, a half breed Indian, made a balloon ascension at a county fair at Prinston, Mo, and when at the height of 500 feet in descending, he lost his grasp and fell.

He lit on his feet in a corn field, his thigh bones were broken and driven into the trunk of his body. Notwithstanding the large pension payments last month, amounting to $16500,000, receipts for the month are more than $7,500,000 in excess of the total expenditure during the same period. The receipts have averaged NEBRASKA NOTES. Lots worth $17,000 were sold the other day at Kearney. Cherry county repeats good crops, having had plenty of rain.

Furnas county crop reports make a much better showing than was anticipated. A new flouring mill is expected to be erected soon at Omaha, with a capacity of 400 barrels a day. Humphrey hardware store at Lincoln was burglarized the other night to the amount of $200. Notwithstanding the rain nearly every day at Fairmont district fair, Hon. C.

H. Van Wyck delivered the address. The sudden death of Mrs. James Kel-ley, at Mason City, the other day, was decided by the jury to be a natural death. The Nebraska City district camp meeting was in session at Auburn on the 28th inst, and was attended by at least 2,000 people.

Schuyler reports the heaviest rainfall Thursday night of last week, ever known in that county. Four inches of water fell in two hours. The Kansas City Omaha railroad tracklayers have reached McCool Junction from the south. This gives McCool the third outlet, over which the people are rejoicing. Fairmont district fair opened the 31st nit.

Sixty-two speed horses are reported on the grounds. This is the first fair held in western Nebraska, and a large attendance is expected. J. H. Meschaim of York, an atlas publisher, was shot and instantly killed by the accidental discharge of a gun in the hands of N.

W.Flasig, of Bed Cloud, while hunting just east of Ord. Hon. J. M. Thurston, the other night.

at the opera house in Loup his lecture on General Ctfant, to a crowded house. The speaker was fre- over $1,000,000 a day, and now amount quently interrupted rounds of hearty wvuifuiiwii jlIUiUBV, ilJ- Two railway graders at Crete quar relied and one stabbed the othfcr just above the heart The knife struck a rib and glanced aside. The wound will not probably prove fatal. The man who did the stabbing made his escape. Last week a two days' soldiers reunion was held at the fair grounds at Orleans.

A district organization was accomplished. Holdridge captured Orleans in a sham battle It was the biggest gathering ever held in the valley. A heavy wind storm struck near Alma the other day blowing down a school house, and several farm bouses that lay in the track of the storm. The funnel-shaped cloud could be seen plainly by the naked eye in its rapid circular motion, being a terrible thing to look at. A collision of two freight trains occurred on the main line of the B.

M. near Ashland the other morning. Several cars of merchandise were wrecked and the track blocked for hours. Three men were seriously injured by the break ing of a rope. Their names could not be learned.

Judge Powers and Crawford at Norfolk, in chambers, decided the contest for the county seat in Knox county, in favor of the action of the board casting out over 100 fraudulent votes cast at Creighton, by refusing to grant the writ for recanvassing the vote. This tilling, it is believed, will end the contest. Mrs. Antoinette Conklin, of Moorfield, was found guilty the other day of murder in the second degree, for poisoning her daughter, Emma May, last May. Judge Uocnrane sentenced ner to imprisonment in the penitentiary to a term of ten years.

The case will be appealed by Lewis Shelby, attorneys for the defense. The rain that fell at Albion on the night of the first was the heaviest fall in years at that place. It flooded the streets and filled the cellars in the business part of the town. The Union Pacific and Elkhorn Valley railroads have been washed out in several places and no trains on the 2d inst, on either. Thomas Cadley, a stranger iu Tobias, employed as helper for the masons on the Kansas City Omaha road, cut his throat the other day.

He had severed the exterior of the jugular vein and the clotting of the blood thereby stopped the hemorrhage, alone saved his life. It is thought he was temporarily insane The physician entertains some hope of recovery with the chances unfavorable. "Pay as you go" and you will eat your own bread and wear your own coat The man who follows this law can eat with better appetite, sleep more soundly, have more comfort in life, and be-more respected by his fellows, and have a better character than he can in following the other and worse way. He will find it easier to pay, easier to believe and easier to help in every good cause. Ue will live more happily and die more peacefully.

Sherman Co. Times. A late report from the Indian battle with Colorow states that there wero five killed instead of two, and four wounded. Several Indians and two squaws were killed and five wounded. There has been no fighting since, but over six hundred Indians are encamped within six miles.

The Indians are ready to fight at the slightest provocation. The loss of 300 ponies and their squaws have made them wild and ready for revenge. U. S. Deputy Marshal Geo.

Sharrit arrested the other day Dr. A. G. Abodelat, one of the board of pension examiners at Lawrence, Kansas, on the charge of extorting money from claimants. The commissioner of pensions has removed Abodelat and suspended Dr.

May, another member of the board. It is said that the pension department has been quietly investigating the conduct of things throughout Kansas and that some further developements are likely. Dr. Abodelat was released on $1,000 bail. Robert Franklin, who has been located by detectives at Fairmont and charg ed with being a murderer and a horse- thief, made his escape.

It seems that before coming to Fairmont he had lived in Missouri and is said to have belonged to an organized gang of horsethieves, and in resisting arrests, had shot and killed two deputy sheriffs. About seven of our citizens, including the city marshal and deputy, armed with a warrant, surrounded his home. They claimed to have seen him enter but in some way he escaped. The Blair canning factory is in full blast It employs from 100 to 125 men, women and children, daily. Twenty-three thousand, four hundred and seventy-two cans of corn were put up in one day, and 15,650 in one afternoon.

One hundred and twenty-five thousand cans of corn have been put up. Work in tomatoes has just begun. The entire product of the factory has been sold at a good advance, for the last year. The (roods of this factory have so good a name in the market that outside persons have been trying to buy the entire plant Pilot. Instead of running into Omaha Sept 1, as intended, the Fremont, Elkhorn Missouri Valley train will hardly be able to come in over their own track by Oct 1, in consequence of the striking of a quicKsana in roe aeep cut, at mm Creek summit, two and a half miles northwest of Ft Omaha.

The cut is one in which Contractor Treat's forces have been at work day and night for a month, using electric light for night work. It was feared that there would be trouble, but it was not thought that the quicksand would be very extensive. OmaJia Herald. At O'Neill the other day Judge Kin-kaid sentenced A. J.

Westerchill to pay a fine of $100 for selling liquor without a license. Jacob Sells was convicted of uttering forged paper, and received a sentence of five years in the penitentiary at bard labor. Sells committed this crime in 1885, and before he could be caught, committed another in Ohio and was sent to the penitentiary of that state, his sentence ending there the 1st of August last, when the sheriff from O'Neill had the necessary warrant and other papers to bring him back, which he did, and when put on trial he pleaded an alibi, and not guilty, but had no witnesses. Judge Kinkaid was a witness for the state, being at the time of the forgery, president of the bank. Judge Crawford tried the case, but by request of the prisoner, Kinkaid imposed the sentence.

WafcingtoH Letter. From our regular correspondent. When President Cleveland was inaugurated, the old Bourbon element of this district came solidly to the front. They had contributed Liberally to the campaign fund and anticipated a prompt recognition of their services. They had been in the social and political background, lo! many, many years, and now that a change had come, every old fossil that had a political existence previous to the Republican regime, heard the resurrection trump and came forth demanding and expecting a good fat office.

A more greedy, ravenous nnd shameful rush for place was never witnessed. Del egations and deputations in the interest of tho numerous aspirants besieged the White Houso day and night and expec-titions were at "high water mark. Two and a half years of the administration have passed away and what is the local result? Only thrco of the many respectable positions belonging to the district are filled by "home talent" A moro disappointed crowd cannot be found anywhere, and the air is thick with the maledictions they heap upon Cleveland and his administration. Democracy here means patronage, pure and simple, and nothing else, and the talk of Cleveland's renomination receives a most chilling response. Of course the Republicans sympathize with their discomfiture and offer every balm of consolation within reach, but nothing but orace wui appease tneir anger, and as the months roll on and the days of grace shorten, the violence of indignation increases.

The delegates from this district in the next democratic national convention will not be Cleveland men. Mark that. The recent Republican State Conventions in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Iowa and Maryland, have caused the administration to scratch its head and roll its eyes in wonder at the remarkably clear, concise and truthful manner in which the aforesaid administration is arraigned before tho public. They see the handwriting on the wall, and it requires no extraordinary Daniel to give a correct interpretation. They had been nursing the delusion that there were some old animosities lurking in the Republican ranks that would show themselves in a marked degree when state conventions presumed to indicate Presidential choice.

and anticipated and predicted more or less of a rupture. The harmony which has characterized these conventions, the good spirit which pervades the entire party, and the determination evinced to redeem the country from the hands of shams and pretenders, is a little more pointed than they expected. They dread the expose -of their shameful abuse of civil service; their bungling, imbecile management of the finances; their cowardly foreign policy; their cruel treatment of the country's defenders; their vascillating management of the public domain; and their utter and hopeless failure to inaugurate a single measure for the relief or advancement of the people. There is not a single thing in this administration thus far, that can be pointed to with any degree of American pride or party satisfaction. The program is pretty well completed for Cleveland's electioneering trip, and soon he will be "swinging round the circle" on public exhibition.

This game was played by Andy Johnson, when there was some plausible excuse for it on the ground of the exciting and unsettled condition of affairs at the close of tho war. But it proved a most ignominious failure. It was tried again by President Hayes, who, you remember, became a prominent attraction at various county agricultural fairs. There is no record that that procedure contributed very materially to his popularity. The managers of the coming exhibition intended to thrust Cleveland onto the various Grand Army re-unions this fall, and thus atone for his numerous ension vetoes and unmistakable sympathy for the rebel leaders, but whether wisely or unwisely, that child was strangled at the St Louis affair, and hence the change of program and the working up of municipal invitations.

I know of no Republican who objects to this arrangement, and as a simple party expedient rejoice that the Democracy are still maintaining tneir record or stupid blundering. Quito a large number of changes will take place in the Interior and Treasury departments on the first of September and the month following. A good many of the clerks against whom not a complaint can be made except that they are Republicans, have been asked to resign and have already taken the hint and put in their letters, while others will be dismissed outright on the ground of the necessity of reducing the force. All this is a pretence and sham and only designed to make place for new and partisan appointments. Mr.

Cleveland is compelled to the enormous pressure for office, and there is abundant reason for supposing a complete surrender now to the ravenous greed of party. Weather Erpsrt. Review of the weather near Genoa for the month of 1887. Meaa tempenSare of the month 70.50 Meaa do warns -nosta last year 75.S5 HicheattBiMMtnrOBthe7th and Ijvweatdooatfte'ZSd 4g- Ordinarily clear daya Tr cloudy days i Hipfe wind days 0 Calm days 17 Kaia fell during portions of- -days is Inches of rainfall during month 4.W 10 iot same montn last year a.20 Thunder storms 4, 8, 12, 15, 16, 17 and 20th. Fog heavy on the 15th.

Hnil, 4th and 8th, from to in. diamater. Meteors, a very fine display on the evening of the 10th, shooting from the zenith in a southwesterly direction. The month just passed has been a very peculiar one for this section of Nebraska, the mean temperature being two degrees below the mean of the last ten years, and the amount of rain fall has been two inches more than the mean for the same period, and this excess has fallen mostly during the night in gentle showers, not such as would prevent plowing, but has made haying a very precarious occupation. SCHWAEZ, -MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS 1M- fBBBUSmSmwV a SBsK TKW BBBmfuu .3 Ej SBBM3sBBBBBBmwKasmfliBBVBS9B- SJSPSSSkT Ed.

Journal: We have just had the most extraordinary storm which it has been my lot to record. Notwithstanding the number of rainy days, or rather nights, during August the present month seems to have arrived at the climaxnearly 2 inches on the first night, and 8 on the second or 10.60 inches in 24 hours. The Looking Glass has overflowed its banks and the Columbus road as well as acres of hay land are under water, and as most of the hay is in stack, the loss will be quite considerable. The nearest approach to this storm was that at Lost Creek three years ago, but I hope it will not prove so destructive. However, until the water subsides we cannot ascertain fully.

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E. M. Vail of Illinois is visiting his old friend, Sani'L Alexander. Mrs. M.

M. Hooper, of county-is visiting her daughter, Mrs. P. F. Miller.

Mrs. James Gillan, who has been spending several weeks in Omaha, returned Saturday of last week. Charles Gillan has rented his farm to Charles Newton, and will remove to Omaha. We regret to lose our old neighbors. Isaiah Lightner has received the appointment of special agent in the Indian department, and is at present investigating matters in Dakota.

For nearly three weeks it has rained nearly every day, and Thursday night, Sept. 1st, a terrible rain storm swept over this vicinity, accompanied by thunder and lightning, the latter was very close at times, killing a valuable cow for S. C. Osborn, and striking a post in John Gleason pasture splitting it in pieces. The streams which were already full were overflown and nearly all the bottom land near the Lookingglass creek is under water.

We hear of several families who have been compelled to leave their homes. Great damage has been done to meadows; corn is torn down and laying under water; nearly all the hay already cut is floating, and all small bridges are washed away. We begin to think that all the moisture that has been withheld from the eastern states, has been poured down on this part of Nebraska. T. D.

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In thib department tho people talk, and not the editor. Each writer must hold himself ready to defend his principles and his statements of facts. "In tho multitude of counsel there is wibdom." Ed. Journal. 1 Compalftory Education.

By a recent act of the legislature, approved March 31st, 87, it is made obligatory on all parents or guardians to send all children under their care between 8 and 14 years old, inclusive, a public or private school for a term of not less than twelve weeks in each successive year, under a penalty of not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars, but the resident school board may excuse any party from this penalty for illness, poverty, inability or being, already proficient in knowledge, a gap almost wide enough to swallow the whole bill; again, the fine shall be imposed upon the evidence of not less than two credible witnesses and on the principle of what is every body's business is nobody busi ness, tins wnn me preceoing wiu aooni. absorb all of usefulness there might be in the bill; the duty of attending to this matter should have been devolved upon the district board or more especially upon the director, whose duty it is to take and keep a census of all the children of school age, and therefore would be likely to know if the law had been complied with, but, with all its imperfections, it is a step in advance which it is to be hoped the next legislature will take up and perfect. A Fbiend or Popular Education. Drunkenness or the Liqaor Habit Positively Cared by Adaialsterinje Or. Haiiiea' Ooldta Sproittc.

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and will bo sold at ery low prices. Eleventh Street, Columbus. Nebraska. noUO-tf Mckinley carnahan, 9 COLUMBUS, NEB. Money to loan on improved farms in this and adjoining counties, at current rates.

We are prepared to close loans promptiy, in all cases where title and security are satisfactory. Office up-stairs in Henry Building, corner of Olive and Eleventh streets. juiyw-Nur CINCINNATI, O. janl2-87y The livery barn of Belva Baldwin was destroyed by fire at Fremont on the night of the 31st ult; Harry Rockafellow perished in the flames while trying to rescue some of the stock. SPEICE ISTOETH, General Agents for the sale of ESTT E3-X Union Pacific and Midland Pacini- li.

U. Ijinils for wile at from S3.00 to $10.00 it aero for cawh oron tiveorten j-arn time, in animal puuirnt tosuit iiitrchaiwrx. WehuahalHrKnnd choicu lot of othtr laud, improved and uniinroittl, for ttalt nt low prio and ou retuMtnahln ternm. Aluo buHinetw and mtidence lot in tho city. We keep complete abstract of title to all real eatato in Platte County.

COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA. fi-21 ADDITIOXAL LOCAL. Bismarck Towiwkip. Threshing iB still progressing in this vicinity.

O. D. Butler finished cutting his late Has the other day. Mrs. Ch'as.

Schroeder and niece of Columbus visited at Otto Mueller's on the 28th. Walter Butler has twenty-five acres of fine looking flax, which he is preparing to thresh. The late copious rains have done immense good for the farmers; the ground was very dry before, and almost impossible to plow, is now in excellent condition, and being turned over in a lively manner; however, as there is hay cut in different parts of the neighborhood, and not stacked, it will be almost totally destroyed, and as hay is such a poor crop this vear. it will be quite a loss. Aside from the above, it may be mentioned, that the rain on the night of the 1st flooded Shell Creek, and took out two bridges on a slough south of it; it is reported that Burke's bridge across Shell Creek is also gone.

All the sloughs in the country are filled with water; D. Bartles will lose a great deal of his flax, which is lying under water; O. D. Butler will lose a good part of his hay, and numerous other instances might be mentioned. Ckabus.

Wonaa'a Veracity. It is the opinion of theologians and lawyers and judges that as a rule women are truthful. Hence, the public rightfully attaches great value to the testimony of a lady as to the effect of medicine. Mrs. Mask is the wife of one of the most prosperous and intelligent farmers of Alcora county, Edward Mask.

After suffering two years with an ulcer that covered her left leg from the knee to the foot, recently she has been cured. Read what cured her: Gift P. Miss Feb. 16, 1887. Gentlemen A year ago last fall a sore broke out on my left leg below the knee.

It began to spread, and run until my whole leg was covered. This continued until last fall, when I began to take Swift Specific. The physician told me it would take about one dozen bottles; but when I finished two bottles my leg was weu. While I suffered, I also had chills regularly. These, too, disappeared when the ulcer healed up.

lam truly grateful for the benefit I received from S. 8. and both myself and husband talk up your medicine to all our friends. Mas. Cobdezja S.

Mask. The 4 IypeMla Excreted. Jesup, March 13, 1887. Gentlemen I had a severe case of dyspepsia'several years ago. My blood was impoverished, and my health was so poor that I was greatly reduced in weight I took a course of S.

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BRO. Wholesale and ICctail Deiders in Gae, Poultry, and Fresh Fish. AH Kinds of Sausage a Specialty. r-Tah paid for HideH, Pelt. Tallow.

Hihtt market price paid for fat cattle. Olive Street, second door north of First National Bank. 39-tf Kepahliran Convention. The republican electors of Platte county are hereby called to meet in convention at the Court House in Columbus on Friday, Sept 30, 1887. at 2 o'clock p.

for the purpose of placing in nomi nation one county treasurer, county clerk, county sheriff, county judge, county coroner, county superintendent of schools, county surveyor, clerk of the district court, and six delegates to the state, and six delegates to the judicial convention and for tho transaction of such other business as may properly come before the convention. The several townships are entitled to representation as follows: Coluinhat iHtWard, Deli-uate. At THE LABBEST AID FIIEST STiCI west of Omaha, at GREISEN BROS. The best manufactories of the country represented. Not to be undersold byanybod Come and see prices at GREISEN BROS.

3d 8 ti Townxhm. (irancl I'raine Lmtt Creek Shell Creek 3 Butler 4 Iiimarck 3 Monro Walker 11 Humphrey i Granville 3 Crwtton 4 Hurrowa I Woodvilie 7 Ht. Bernard I Hherman 4 Loop 2 Joliwt 5 The caucuses to lie held at the usual voting places on Friday, Sept. 'SI, at 2 clock p. in.

By order of County Central Committee. J. Lt Tbouan, Chairman, J. I. Robisox, Secretary.

John DeMier, of Allentown, claims to be the oldest volunteer fireman in the United States. He joined Relief company No. 2, of Cincinnati, in 1828 and is now eighty years of ago. TIIK WEAKER SEX are immensely strengthened by the use of Dr. R.

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