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The Columbus journal., 1879-06-18
ST. Edward.

EDITOR JOURSkL!-At a meeting
of citizens Wednesday night it was
decided that the lower Beaver would
celebrate the glorious 4th.
A brass band has lately been Or
ganized in Saint Edward; some of
the members are old hands at the
business, but all are practicing
with al energy that must ultimately
lead to perfection as musicians.
After three years experience
Messrs. Stephens and King have
become convinced that the soil and
climate OF this country is well adapt
ed to the successful growing of tame
grasses, and this year finds them
adding largely to their acreage of
timothy and clover.
And still they come - covered
wagons, herds of cattle, and sheep
from Minnesota and Wisconsin,
going west. Five or six years ago
Boone county was on the extreme
frontier; now we are back in the
old settlements, the border of civ
ilization is pressing onward seventy
five or one hundred miles west of
here.
Four blacksmiths in town, doing
rushing business from morning
till night, sharpening breaking plow
shares.
The foundation of the new hotel
(now laiO is a patent stone, all in
one piece, composed of four parts
gravel and one Of cement. The sur
face is as smooth as marble and
about as hard. VIDErTE.
The Columbus journal., 1879-06-18
u. and Madison County

Madison county, though of the
line of the U. p. road, has heard
something OF that great corporation.
as is evidenced by returns from the
election OIL Saturday.
''The best laid schemes of mice and men.
Gang aft aglee."
a telegram from Wisner, Monday
morning, stated that the Z. p. prop
osition failed TO have the requisite
two-thirds by 30 votes. we shall
not be at all surprised if the people
of Madison county shall be confirm
ed in the belief that the U. p. want
ed to defeat its own proposition.
The Columbus journal., 1879-06-18

IT is reported that Sitting Bull
has advised his band to make peace
with the Americans on any terms
they can obtain, as they can accom-
plish nothing by keeping up trouble
and hostilities with the whites. 1t
is said that he is sincere in his profr-
ers of peace, and wants his people to
come back under the jurisdiction of
the United States. The bands are
now hunting buffalo, going north
into the country above the dry forks
of the Missouri river. e
The Columbus journal., 1879-06-18

ELEVEN little girls, of Minneapo-
lis, Mimi, who were engaged the
other day in stringing castor-beans
for beads, were led to eat a quanti-
ty of them, and soon afterwards all
were taken with spasms and indi-
cations of poisoning. All had par
tiallyrecovered but three, who were
in critical condition. Medical men
had no idea that the beans contained
that portion of poison in its crude
state
The Columbus journal., 1879-06-18

THE Norfolk Journal claims that
the f. & E. V. railroad company,
has a right to the $4,000 bonds,
voted in Madison county, on the
ground that the law requiring a
two-thirds vote having no repeating
clause of the old law, which only
required a majority to vote aid to
railroads. The company has filed a
demand for the $4,000 bonds. II
they persist in their claim and Mad
ison county don't yield, the result
will be law suit.
The Columbus journal., 1879-06-18
Why should 1t?

We are informed that precisely the
same dispatch in regard TO the elec-
tion Saturday was sent from here to
each of the Omaha dailies. The
Herald, however, changed the whole
import of it by giving it this head
ing: "On to Deadwood. The U.
p. bonds carry in Platte county by
overwhelming majorities, &C." How
would it be possible for so wide
awake a journal as the Herald to
plead ignorance in putting on that
head? OF course it will take the
trouble to make the correction.
The Columbus journal., 1879-06-18
From POstviiie.-Fhe Pound.
ing Of ahe Doctors SON.

MR.. EDITORi--As your CORES
pondent's statement of the pounding
of the Doctors son by a Sabbath
school teacher, might mislead your
readers in regard 10 facts and per-
sone, you will no doubt permit an
explanation. The Dr's son is Mr.,
Chas. Armstrong, the same young
man who recently in company of
several young ladies, insulted the
Rev. Mr.. Smythe, pastor of the
Catholic church on Shell creek. (See
'From Lindsey" in Columbus Era
of May 24th.) The S. S. teacher is
Mr.. ID. III. Davis, a well known, and
respected farmer. The facts of the
case are these: Conner Davis, son
of ID. III. Davis rather sickly lad
of perhaps IA or 10 years of age, at
tempted to pen some cattle of Mr..
AS, which were damaging Mr.. DIS
grain. Mr.. A. and his herders were
trying to prevent him. Young D.
got off his horse to the ground, when
young A. got hold of him and Held
him down while the herders tried to
drive the cattle of. Mr.. d. witness
ed the proceedings from his house
and hurried to the battlefield.
Finding his son held down by Mr..
A. and supposing that he had been
knocked of the horse and thrown to
the ground by Mr.. A, he admins
tered one or two blows to the latter.
These are the facts. Let fathers and
mothers judge if the above explana-
ton at least is not demanded by
JUSTICE.
The Columbus journal., 1879-06-18

THE city of Berlin was in holiday
attire on the 10th in honor of the
Emperor's golden wedding. Many
distinguished guests were in the
city. The royal family of Saxony,
Grand Dukes Alexis and Michael OF
Russia, the ducal families Of Baden,
Macklenburg-S and Meek
lenburg-Streitz, Prince Frederick of
the Netherlands, prince and princess
of Hohenzollcrn, and the duke of
Edinburgh.
The Columbus journal., 1879-06-18

A VERY destructive fire occurred
last week at West Point, Neb.,
originating in the hardware store of
III. j. Lee & Co., destroying that
building; +. Herod's meat market
building and ice house, James
Morteson's shop: N. p. Larson's,
Wagon shop; John Meyers, dwell
ling, and several other buildings.
Twenty thousand dollars will not
cover the loss. The citizens of West
Point believe the fire to be the
work of an inceDdiary.
The Columbus journal., 1879-06-18
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Land Office at Grand Island, Neb., |
June 8, 1879.
NOTICE is hereby given that the fol-
IN lOwing.Damed settler has filed
notice other intention to make final proof
in support other claim, and secure final
entry thereof at the expiration of thirty
days from the date ofthis notice, viz:
Lois Sisson, widow of Erastus Sisson
Homestead No. 1891, for the west u
southeast a and west y north east q
Section 6 Township 10 north of Range 4
west and names the following as her
witnesses. viz: James O'Donnell of
of Boone Co., Neb.
VI. b. HOME, Register.
The Columbus journal., 1879-06-18

MRs. JANE L. HULL, wife of DR..
A. j. Hull, was most foully murder
ed in n. Y. city on the night of the
10th. Her hands and feet were tied,
she was blindfolded, gag was in
her mouth, and the trunk at the side
of her bed was open and robbed of
its contents. Her fingers were
badly torn and friends say one
diamond ring and one emerald had
been taken .therefrom.
The Columbus journal., 1879-06-18
SHERIFF'S SALE.

DY VIRTUE of an order of sale di.
ID rected to me from the Clerk of the
District Court of Platte county, Ne
braska, on judgment and decree OBJ
tanned before the District Court of the
4th judicial district of Platte county,
Nebraska, on the 21st day of A April, 1879,
February term adjourned to April, in
favor of PhilO Camfield as Plaintiff and
against Ceruak WOlfel as Defendant.
for the sum of $6S6.50, and costs taxed at
$l6.9S and accruing costs, have levied
upon the following real estate taken as
the property of said defendant, to sat-
isfy said order of sale, to wit:
The southwest quarter Of section No.
nine (9), in township No. seventeen
O7), north of range No. (1), east of the
sixth principal meridian in Platte
county, Nebraska, and will offer the
same for sale to the highest bidder, for
cash in hand, on the 10th day of July,
A. D., 1879, in front of Court House in
Columbus, Platte county, Neb., at the
hour of , O'Clock, p. NJ, of said day, when
and where due attendance will be given
by the undersigned.
Dated at Columbus, June 9th, 1879.
BENJAMIN SPIELMAN,
4I4-5 Sheriff of said County.
The Columbus journal., 1879-06-18

THE rain, hail and wind storm at
Red Cloud, Neb., on the 10th was
very severe, and caused much dam
age. AS many as fifty dwelling
houses were overturned, and many
persons slightly injured, and one so
badly that he can not live. Large
hail stones fell, breaking window
panes and killing domestic animals.
The damage to crops Is believed to
be very great.
The Columbus journal., 1879-06-18

KANSAS and Nebraska are not the
only states visited by destructive
storms. On the 18th, storm oc.
Cured at Bordentown, New Jersey,
uprooting trees, carrying away
roofs, and blowing down several
houses. A cyclone passed over
Sandersville, Georgia, on the same
day, blowing down the Catholic
church and many trees, and crops
sustained considerable damage.
The Columbus journal., 1879-06-18

FROM Sidney, Neb., we have the
news that a cyclone broke loose at
Buffalo Gap, dealing death and de-
sstruc,;on-in its -erursc, drowning
eleven persons at the Gap, by the
overflow OF Beaver creek, which was
so sudden and unexpected that the
victims had no time to escape from
the rush of the waters. Beaver
creek is on the stage road from
Sidney, and about ninety-two miles
from Deadwood.
The Columbus journal., 1879-06-18
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Land Office at Grand Island, Neb., I
June 9, 1879.
NOTICE is hereby given that the fol-
~ lOwing-named settler has filed
notice of his intention to make final
proof in support of his claim, and secure
final entry thereof at the expiration of
thirty days from the date of this notice,
viz:
for the north y north west q Section "a
Township 10 north Range l west, and
names the following as his witnesses,
viz: David Carrig. jr., of Platte Co.,
Neb., and Robert Butler of Platte Co.,
Neb.
NJ. b. HOXIE, Register.
The Columbus journal., 1879-06-18
a EfissaHlisl's ward.

Judge Pound pronounced sentence
upon Rufus Pope at Lincoln the
other day. Brief but comprehen-
sive, the sentence of the court should
be studied to profit by every licen-
tious scamp:
81 know of no mitigating circum-
stances in your case, Mr.. Pope. You
are man of mature years, and you
have brought sorrow into the hearts,
and possibly blasted the lives of two
innocent young women. You must
be very depraved, indeed, thus de-
liberately to destroy the hopes of
these, your victims. You have put
grief into their breast, perhaps as
long as they live. You cannot heal
the wounds nor repair the ruins you
have made. You met these wcmen
on unequal terms. You are man of
experience, and they young and in
experienced, unable to defend them
selves against your arts and wiles,
and your base hypOcricy. | think
yon richly deserve the full penalty
OF The law for the crime you have
committed; and the sentence of the
court therefore, is that you be i'm
prisODcd in The penitentiary of this
State for term Of seven years, and
pay the costs of your prosecution"
The Columbus journal., 1879-06-18
For the JOURNAL.
A Farmers Compliments to Jay Gould.
MIKE WALSH, Improved.

''The wealth which migrate tyrants WELD
To crush and starve US, zoe create;
The sweat we pour on growing field
Gives greatness to the mis- named
great;
But short the reign of this favored few
Where men to men are only true."
ga bitter destiny, alas,
Has ours been through years Of time !;
A poor, despised, degraded class,
All along the u. p. line.
But, demagOgues and wealthy knaves,
We're no longer dupes and slaves"
ssODe firm resolve, one fearless stroke,
One stern assault against the wrong,
Have freed us from the CALLING yoke
We've borne too patiently and long.
We've struck as men shO'd strike and be
The saviOrs of pOsterityw
The Columbus journal., 1879-06-18

Kansas City enjoys the blessings of
street car fare to Chicago just now
Why can't the Iowa pool treat Omaha to
such rates once in awhile? There are
several hundred persons in this city
willing to visit Chicago if the round trip
was reduced TO ten cents.
Now, if We only had the A. & n.
road running into Columbus, we
could all afford TO take trip to the
Garden CITY.
The Columbus journal., 1879-06-18
Competition.

The Omaha Bee last Monday con-
tains the following significant par
agraphs:
Fare from Kansas City to Chicago,
| five hundred miles-five cents. Fare
from Omaha to DillOnyille, two miles
and a half-fifty cents.
The Columbus journal., 1879-06-18
COLUMBUS MARKETS.

Our quotations of the markets are OBJ
tanned Tuesday afternoon, and are correct
and reliable at the time.
The Columbus journal., 1879-06-18
COLUMBUS FINANCIAL YAa-ET E7p0RT
corrected by Columbus State Bank

Canada currency, , per cent. discount.
Silver change in large amounts, per
cent. discount.
Mexican dollars, - cents.
Silver dollars. par.
The Columbus journal., 1879-06-18
A Good Word from lincoln.

LINCOLN, June II, 1879.
Dispatch to L. GERARD, ESQ.,:
A. & N. bonds carried eight to
one. Opposition have quit work.
ing. O. FUNK,
The Columbus journal., 1879-06-18
FARM PROPERTY FOR SALE.

The N. 4 n. w. a, Sec. 4, T. II, r. 1
E., Z. NJ, containing S0.1l acres. Sixty
acres under cultivation, and the remain
der is good hay land. The improvements
are a story and 4 iii;tiif frame house with
five rooms, lathed and plastered
throughout; a wood shed; new frame
stable and granary; corn crib, cattle
shed, hog yards, corral, etc,-There is on
the place good well of water.-Five
acres of growing timber consisting of cot
tOnwoOd, ash, soft maple, elm, &c.-Also
a young fruit orchard consisting of ap-
pies, peaches, cherries, wild plum,
currants and goose berry bushes, grape
vines, &C., all in very excellent condi-
tiOn.-FOur miles northeast of COlum-
bus, it is convenient to market, and is
a desirable farm. Price $3.50, twO-thirds
cash, remainder in three equal annual
payments. Inquire at the JOURNAL
office, for further particulars, or of the
undersigned, on the premises.
456-z A. III. GIBSON.
The Columbus journal., 1879-06-18

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the
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full stock Of FIRST CLASS hand
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all small
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Smyrna times., 1879-07-09
SMYRNA DEL, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY g. 1879
ming to tremble again when Sarah resumed

ming to tremble again when Sarah resumed
her gracious mien.
"Well, seeing it's you," she said, ~
don't mind telling. Jenny Allen is going
to elope with Will Harvey tonight. Hes
to be at her fathers back garden at twelve
o'clock, his face covered with black mask.
When he gives a low whistle, thrice re-
peated, she's to come out and then they
fit together. Here are all the details in
note in her own hand, which picked up
after seeing it drop from win Harvey
pocket as he cantered down the road half
an hour since Read for yourself"
Dick grouud his teeth as his eye ran over
the lines which confirmed every word Of
Sarah's statement.
"What are you going to do?' asked
Sarah with provoking GOODNESS that reused
Dicks fury.
"Do?" he growled. "Td pommel the
william if l could only lay hands ON hin" =
81 can put you on a better plan"
What is it p
Disguise yourself as the letter indi-
Gates. Be on the spot little before the
time. Give the concerted signal, ara when
the lady comes fit with her yourself. Ten
to one when she sees the trap shes in. She IL
marry you to avoid exposure. AT auy raj"
you'll earn her fathers gratitude ~ tEw"tt.
ing Harvey's plot"
But suppose Harvey, too, comes before
the time and we meet at the gate -
Knock him down, beat him senseless,
give the signal and get away with the prize
before he comes to-"
"I'll do it Y cried Dick, hiseycs flashing
fiercely. "Good-bye, Sally; III have news
for you when W next meet?'
1t lacked a quarter to twelve when Dick
Sanders, his face masked, stole up to Mr.
Aliens garden gate. At the same moment
a man similarly disguised approached by
another path. For an instant the pail
confronted each other. They both spranl
forward, striking out with might and main
Blows raincd thick and fast. The combat
ants were well matched. After a mutua
hammpring for ten minutes, without al
vantage to either side, they grappled an'
went down together. Then they scutllet
and BIT and scratched till they rolled apar
from sheer exhaustion and lay caring a
each other in helpless rage. Bo:h thei
masks were torn in tatters, and as tn
bright moonlight beamed down upon thei
battered faces each uttered an exclamation
of surprise.
Ted Brant!" painted the one.
Dick Sanders grasped the other.
81 thought it was that scoundrel IIal
vey!' replied Dick.
30 did ] T. rejoined Ted.
4 brief comparison Gf notes disclose
that Sarah Blake, after her interview wit
Dick, had had a similar one with Ted; tn
result being as above narrated, a dcsperat
encounter, in which each thought he W.
2 pommeling away at viii Iarvey. I'll
letter, we need hardly say, was a.niabl
Sarah's own production.
> Before Dick and Ted were presentab!
again Will Harvey and Jenny were happil
! married with the full consent of the latter
+ father, who, indeed, bad never opposed th
p, match.
Sarah Blake is still maiden.
Smyrna times., 1879-07-09
For the Smyrna Times.
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Mosquitoes heat and flies, just put me in q rage,
And can pOetize no more until I've built Il cage,
I'll make it large enough, to hold table lounge and
And cover it with wire gauze-Ill have no insects
there
They'll beat against the barricade, and strive with
might and main.
But then they'll only cause themselves conclusion of
the BRAIN:
Whilst l. secure behind the bars, their malice can
defy,
Vexaons tears will pour in streams from every insect
Without cage cannot think of subjects Old ornow,
For when Try, up starts hy, and cuts the thought
in two;
Or a mosquito comes around, singing blood-thirsty
songs,
Nothing can more distract my thoughts or make me
Ii you've never studied insects, you have something
yet to learn:
They study You in every move and watch your every
turn,
And when they find YOU on the watch their anger
They use such dreadful language too when you've
learned the sounds.
Thei' language is shocking for such little bits Of
things,
But no worse than ma5 be looked for in whatever
bites or stingS;
If you will but look for parallels amongst the human
You will sec it's not so odinicu to match in every case
Take all the lower creatures beasts, fishes insects
You'll find them represented amongst Creations lords
The sly old rat the coon dove, the IiOn tiger, snake
The hungry shark, vor;ciouS pike, the buzzard anc
the AXE,
The cunning fox, the anarling dog, the wolf Will
cleaning teeth.
The COON the opposum, the sheep, and cat with claw
in sheath,
The monkey with its mischief chamclion's changing
coats,
Some personal parallel to each may now be in you
thoughts
If I should lengthen out the list, twould make m,
piece too long,
| But through Creation you will find weak things or
pressed by strong,
Andall through nature you must one thing destroy
another,
But men being lords of all the rest must rob and sa
each other.
&c.
III,
Smyrna times., 1879-07-09

High prices at Niagra have finally accom-.
pished their Legitimate result. Visitors
have been growing less there until now the
hotels and other public places are not pay
ing expenses, and various efforts are being
put forth to drum up trade. 1t proves to
be an uphill business, however, and
requires more enthusiasm than most men
are willing to put into it. Summer resorts
have increased SO rapidly during the rast
few years at seashore and in mountain that
sharp competition in prices, coupled with
the necessity for economy among men in
general, has drawn away the crowds from
the more expensive especially
those where scenery is the principal object.
Views at Niagara, too, have beon much
hemmed in of late, and the erection Of that
high fence on the American shore has
doubtless had much to dc, with disgusting
the average American with extortionate
tendencies Of the place.
Smyrna times., 1879-07-09

The New York Svn says five young men
belonging to a Government surveying ex-
peditiOn got lost on the sterile. plains of
Colorado. After day of wandering with
out water, they disagreed as to the best di-
rection to take, and two went one way,
while three went another. The two found
a camp after three days of intense suffering
from thirst. A party hurried out to search
for the other three. When they were dis
covered two were dead, and the third lived
only long enough to drink little water
the first in Ave days. At about the same
time $4,000 fell to him by the death of a
relative in Baltimore.
Smyrna times., 1879-07-09

PRIXCE NAroLEoN.-Prince Napoleon
(Plon.Picu,) who Is now the recognized
chief Of the imperialist party, Processes to be
republican, but he refuses to waive his
rights to the succession. His policy appears
to be a waiting policy. So long as the re-
public continues in favor he declines to be
set up in opposition to it, well knowing that
by assuming the role of pretender he
would be invited to leave France. By
tacitly disayowing imperialistic aspirations
he protects himself against exile while
waiting" like the famous Mr.. Micawber,
" for something to turn up" Something
did "turn up" eventually for Mcawber,
and he became quite famous man in his
way among a people who admired his clo.
quence and the wonderful charm Of his
manners, and who saw in him greater posi-
bilities. Prince Napoleon, though looked
askance upon by the republicans and not
liked by many OF the most influential i'm
perialists, has possibilities also, and conse-
quently a large following. NJ. Rouher rec.
ognizes his claims to succeed the dead
Prince Louis, but will take no part in sus
tanning them having, he says. retired from
politics. Emile Girardin is Prince Napo
Icons most ardent supporter, while Paul
Cassagnac is his most inveterate adversary
So there is wager Of battle between the two
factions, and with house divided against
itself Prince Napoleon is wise to abstain
from bringing the fabric about his ears
Bait San.
Smyrna times., 1879-07-09

THE OLD uERo.-In his recent speech to
the editors Of Mississippi, Mr.. jefferson
Davis observed: 4 have never yet seen a
Southern woman reconstructed" 1t is re.
corded that his remark was received with,
"uprorious applause.' As there was moth
ing particularly new, brilliant or witty in
the observation thus received, it must be
that the editors assembled were rejoicing
because the women Of the South had so
steadfastly maintained those sentiments to-
ward the Union which precipitated the
Southern States into rebellion. The assem-
blage ofeditors. after this speech, manifested
"great enthusiasm" and " everybody it is
recorded, accepted the invitation Of the
president "to come forward and shake
hands with the old hero"
Smyrna times., 1879-07-09

MARRIED BY TELEGRAPH.-Rev. c. S. Colt
pastor of Centenary Church, Newark, n. j.
recently performed an informal marriage
ceremony between Miss Margaret Wright,
who was visiting friends in that city. and
DR.. F. NJ. Shaw. of San Francisco. The
bride, officiating clergyman and several wit
nesses were in the Western Union Office, in
Market street, in Newark, and the groom,
with witnesses, was in the telegraph
office in San Francisco. The groom is fifty.
one years old, and is wealthy farmer at
Los Angeles, while the bride is a resident of
Albany, and is but twenty seven. The two
had been engaged for some time, but DR..
Shaw was unable to come East as he had
promised, and requested her to come to San
Francisco, where he would meet her and
have the marriage performed. She wrote
to him that she was unwilling to do this
upon mere promise of marriage, and lie
then proposed the telegraphic mode, which
she accepted. The bride has since started
to join her husband, where the legal cere-
mony will be performed.
Smyrna times., 1879-07-09

The Philadelphia Chronicle Herald criti.
cises the action of the Times of that city
for publishing the love story of which Miss
Duer is the author, rs carrying sensational
ism to the extreme and hopes PhiIadel.
phians will neither take any stock in such
wOuldbe enterprise nor in her lecture tour.
Smyrna times., 1879-07-09

Says the Springfield Republican "We
look to Delaware for peaches, to Maryland
for oysters, to Kentucky for whisky, to
Ohio for statesmen, and to Louisiana for
liars And get them every time.