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McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-12-27

THE agony is over. Carlisle has ap-
pointed his committees, and the cores
pondcnts who have been doing guess
work for the past two weeks have adj
journed together with Congress until
after the HOLIDAYS.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-12-27

CONGRESSMAN VALENTINE is on the
committee of elections and of claims.
Laird is on military affairs and pensions
and Weaver on expenditures on public
buildings and private lands.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-12-27

KANSAS City, the headquarters of
Frank James, would not allow the Sui
Ivan slugging combination to give an
exhibition within its limits. The Kan
sas City Journal is indignant at the
action Of the police in barring Sullivan
out. The Journal says lit is possible
that if certain officers could have shared
the profits of the entertainment there
would have been no interference. The
cloak of virtue which envelops this city
is getting altogether too heavy. \
Bunco steerers and confidence men
may run riot in the city, but sparring
exhibition can never be allowed. 1t is
too horrible to think of y
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-12-27

GERALD MASSEY has sued the New
York Times for S., 600 on account of a
''funny" editorial in that paper. Those
who have read the stuff of the New
York funny man hope that Massey Will
win the suit on general principles.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-12-27

H. B. PAYNE, the Standard Oil Com
pany candidate for Senator from Ohio,
is 70 years old and worth s5,O00,000.
His wife is a daughter Of Commodore
Perry.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-12-27

An English clergyman, the Rev. r
Hodgson, believes the pre-Adamic re-
mains to be fossil. angels"
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-12-27
F. M. & E. M. k!MMEll,
EDITORS g. PUBL SHeRS.

CONGRESS takes it's holiday recess,
and the country will have rest for at
least two weeks.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-12-27
4 WOMAN in Texas, bearing the prom

A WOMAN in Texas, bearing the prom
Using name of Mrs. Christian, has been
arrested on suspicion of poisoning her
affinity. His name was Drummer, and he
is said to have been the seventh victim
of fatal decoctions prepared by the
hands of the perfdious dame. 1t seems
to have been her habit to poison her
lovers when she tired of them, as it was
not so unpleasant as the usual scene
upon desertion. She was out of luck
this time, and has been arrested for
Bruoner's taking off. The other de-
spatchees having been lawyers and
newspaper men, of no special value to
the public, no notice has been taken of
her Borgian way of disposing of them.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-15

Amusements versus the Prayer Meeting. To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER: In the recent discussion in reference to amusements one or two points seem to have been overlooked On the one side the plea is for the removal of the protest expressed or felt by many Christians. Those who advo cate this freedom do not consider that the deserted prayer meeting is the inevitable re- suit of attendance at places of so called worldly amusements. It cannot be merely matter of preference whether we shall be found at one or the other. The Christian must be held responsible for his influence over those upon whom he does or does not exert it. He cannot live to himself As an individual he may find card playing or danc- ing an innocent amusement, while to those around him 1t may become exciting and absorbing pleasure, and one that is preju- dicial to the Christian life they have prom ised to lead There are those who are look Ing at him to see what he will decide to do and will be glad to follow as far as he will go in the way of self indulgence. There are pleasures that are harmless about which there is no doubt. Shall he not use his influence in persuading them to choose these
 Another point to which we have seen no reference is the injury to the health, often to the character of those who perform at the theater. It is true that some actors and act resses have led blameless lives, but they have been carefully guarded. There are some who feel the strain of playing night after night for many weeks and cannot do it with out the use of stimulants. Young actors are thrown into the society of those who can do them no good, who may lead them to their ruin. Shall Christians find their pleasure in an amusement that weakens the moral sense, wastes life and health and endangers the souls of those who furnish it?
 ONE OF THE LAITY.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-15
Educating a Masculine Cat.
Lesson From A Coon in A Cellar.
 rErc,,n tta RnI+ir,nnra Arnarican

In the northern part of the city there is 8 young man who has in his possession rac- coon sent him by friend in Virginia. The
 beast was homesteaded in his cellar at an
 early and tender age, and consumed its time principally in sleeping on the gas metre,
 pulling the wires of the front door bell, and catching cockroaches. It is knowing little animal, which, strange to relate, has exhib- ited an attachment for no living thing except a white hen which also inhabits the cellar,
 and lives on the most socIable terms with his coonship The 'coon is like the rest of his tribe of plantigrades-a nasty beast to handle in fight. He had had, up to the time of the incident mentioned below, occasion to severely admonish some small dogs about the place who had at odd times "picked him up for snap.'' He has 8 cheerful little habit of getting himself up into little ball and rolling around, presenting at every point of attack propensity to snap out whole fant. neighbor, who was invited to look at him the other day, innocently inquired of the owner if he wasn't afraid the cats would catch him. The owner smiled 8 far away, desultory smile, and allowed that he had 8 vague sort of idea that the cat who pitch ed upon the 'coon under the delusion that he was 8 rat would probably become disabus ed of this idea in the space of SIX seconds. Then the neighbor remarked that he had a house cat of the Thomas persuasion, who had held his own against the garbage mans bulldog and other hereditary enemies for long time, and that, if 1t ever took it into it's feline head to catch that coon, the 'coon would be ttgener." The conversation had long been forgotten, when one night short time ago, the owner of ths coon saw 8 cat proving about the yard, and, after enticing it into the cellar under false pretenses, shut the door, and going outside peered through the win dow. There was faint light through the cellar, and he could see that after the cat had taken turn or two about the room 1t had caught sight of the 'coon as it bumped across the floor after cockroach. The cat crouched, and, after working it's spine for second or two, concluded that the little bum de of gray fur was helpless looking affair, and. therefore, meet prey for a wen-armed feline. Accordingly, Sir Thomas sprang like catapult upon the odd looking animal and there was short scuf1e and splitting and protruding of rigid tails from pile of coal, and the rapidity of the revolutions of the two forms made them indistinguishable from each other. A moment of this revelry. and then there arose out of that pile of coal and went through. the ceiling up into the blue vault of heaven the most unearthly yell that ever greeted the ear of man. It was 8 combination of forty enraged cats and one back fence and several fog horns Then 8 wild, demoniac feline form commenced to fly about the cellar, looking for some loop hole of escape With tail like balloon, Thomas was let out and disappeared over the
Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-15
IDLE WORDS.

New reading-Where the treasurer is, there the cash is also.-BOston Transcript
 A little child of seven or eight said that, when the Bible speaks of ''children's chil- dren," it must mean dolls.
 ''Arthur," said good natured parent to his son, ''I did not know till today that you had been whipped at school last week. ''Ah, papa, but knew it at the time," was the naive reply.
 A Fair Haven fve-year-old child, who went to school for the first time, came home at don't think that teacher knows much. " 'sWhy not, my dear ?" ''Why she kept ask ing questions all the time. She asked where the Mississippi river was. .''-Boston Post.
 eff you were suddenly reduced to abject poverty, what business would you start in at ?' asked an Austin young man of Nose Schaumburg. 'tIn dot gase," responded Nose slowly, T would go into pishness in a small way in vich could make fifty per shent profit" 'sWhat kind of business ?' ''I would sphlit matches and sell 'em ''- Teras SiIfftttaags.
 Dr. Langer states that the fat of a child Contains less oleic but more palmitic and stearic acid than that of adults, besides being richer in the butyric and caproic acids. !" Perhaps this is what causes the infant to yell so vociferously during the night, but we CHI ' a1WayS I6i1. It may De the rlcnHeSS or the butyric and caproicsacids and it may be displaced Norrfstoaon Herald
 The Marietta and North Georgia road is the great route for quail hunters. The other day there was 1000 worth of dogs (cash valuation) in the baggage car on the road, attended by $6,OOo worth of negroes Gold val uation.) In the coach WAS $1,400 worth of guns and $50 worth of hunters. On the re- turn trip they had $5. 80 worth of birds, and Ahau ia &Q0 4fz17ofn lo7o efjf7Jfioz7
 ''Is there fire company within block of ladder company near ?'' ssYas, sir" ssAnd fire escapes on all sides of the building ?" ssYes sir'' ''And extinguishers at every door ?" t'Yes, sir" sAnd rope ladders in every apartment ?'' .eYes, sir.'' ''Well, if you can give me room on the first floor, with window opening into back alley, I will stay all night. Philadelphia Neaos.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-15

Prince Charles of Prussia, whose death has stopped the silver wedding festivities of the German Grown Prince, was the least popular of the Hohenzollerns. He differed greatly from all the other children of Queen Louise, of whom only two-the German Emperor and his sister, the Dowager Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-survive him. Dying. as he did, just when Berlin was about to enjoy itself, robs him of many of the chances of that posthumous popularity which is often in store for the bestrhated man.
 His want of popularity in Berlin was due not so much to his unsocial disposition as to the fact that he kept nigger. The burger readily forgave him his absence from court banquets and balls; but that the Prince should employ as valet and footman one whose skin was as black as an Ethiopian's s seemed too great departure from ordinary usage.
 Accompanied by his black attendant, Prince Charles was familiar figure in the royal carriages which dashed off to the Dom on Sundays He always sat alsne in the gilded box opposite the pulpit, and seemed to pre- fer back seat.
 There was nothing of the Rohenzollern in his personal appearance. The face was mar row and colorless, the hair gray and the pos ture stepping. The sturdy, erect bearing of his brother William was always wanting and, although he was soldier from his youth up, he had not that look of quiet, self satis faction characteristic of the present race of Prussian generals. This was perhaps, the result of his comparative inactivity during the wars of 1866 and 1870.
 Prince Charles lived in the Wilhelmstrasse, opposite Prince Bismarck's residence. In the Prussian capital every house is numbered, and as palaces there are very numerous, these buildings are included in the numerical cate gory When the radical municipal authori- ties introduced this innovation, Prince Charles, it is reported, strongly opposed it.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-15
A FlOwery Wedding.
A Recent Marriage That Possesses Sc
 Points of Interest.

Recent Marriage That Possesses Some
 Points of Interest.
 Among the young women married in New York last week was one who from early girl hood had been exceedingly fond of flowers. She decided to expend her energy and her fathers money upon floral decorations, in- stead of in the direction of fine gowns. Her floral fete is matter of remark with every guest who attended the reception that fol- lowed the marriage ceremony. Palms and ferns made the hall lovely. In the drawing room the grates were filled with fine maiden hair fern and bright cut flowers clustered be- heath. A medium sized plant rose from the center On the ends of the mantels were floral fans widespread. The centers were small white daisies the ringing of rose- buds and ferns. The sticks were distinctly marked with ardesla berries. Another fan on an easel of snilax was composed of white pompons, edged with bon silene and fringed with yellow daisies. The sticks were of vio- lets. Both of the fans were hand painted with sprays of the loveliest combinations through the center. In the middle of the mantel stood the told oaken Eucket,'' mar velous piece of floral work.
 Upon bed of licopodiums, fringed with cissus, crotons and ferns. with terrestrial or chids springing up in places, and a spray of passihora rubra near the old shaft, stood square well, the sides of different blossoms. One side was of yellow pompon artemisias, one of white, one of crimson king carna- tions, one of Ia purity carnations. Each was sprayed with knot of roses. The top of the well was messy {; on one corner perched an owl, wise in expression the owls back and wings were wrought of chrys- anthemums, and his breast was of pale pur- pie artemisias. His eyes were of yellow daisies. The we'll bucket was full of sweet smelling violets, the trailing moss seemed to have been caught on the pendulous stick. The floral screen was effectively worked out. There was clover leaf on the marble of the pier glass; and loose baskets of roses were throughout the rooms. The portiere of ivy and smilax chains which swept in the arch between the extension and the drawing room was the most effective work. This was looped back with rosettes of white satin. In the center swung the wedding bella bell of roses, sprayed with pale buds
Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-15
SuurnaI srl0 Gollrier.
Thursday, Feb. 15. 1ss8.
REFORM IN LEGAL PROoEEDINGs. nlnn..o ;- Q rr.onA s5nnl <.e u:e.a.o..u a.a aa

REFORM IN LEGAL PROCEEDINGS. There is great deal of vigorous and ear- nest talk this winter about the need of re- forms in legal matters and it is creditable to the lawyers that much of it comes from them. Some of the leading lawyers in this State are moving to decrease the delay in getting cases through the Supreme court, and other chan. ges are advocated. In other States also efforts are being made to decrease the vexa- tions and do away with the unnecessary bur- dens of legal proceedings.
 In Illinois the lawyers and the newspapers appear to be wide awake to the desirability of doing something to make the law mere eff ticient and less costly and troublesome. MT. Charles c. Bonney, the president of the Bar Association of the State, has recently made declaration which should be needed not only by the lawyers of Illinois, but deserves the attention and consideration of the lawyers in every other State. He said: The greatest obstacles in the way of the prosperity of the legal profession the most serious hindrances to their usefulness; the SO rces of greatest injury to their clients the causes of deepest dissatisfaction and prejudice, are the delays,
 
 ings. The losses and the anxieties arising from these causes are often more than the re- suits which the suitor is finally allowed to take out of the scaleg of justice. A client who has followed just cause from court to court. and through trial after trial, seeing verdicts set aside, and judgments reversed for some mistake which perhaps does not touch the real merits of the controversy, is very likely to conclude that any settlement he could have made out of court would have been better than victory in litigation, and to govern his future conduct accordingly. .. What the spirit of the age, and the interest alike of lawyers and clients demand, is that litigation be confined to the vital questions of just causes; and that speedy results be reached.
 This is bold, but it will meet the approval
 all honest lawyers and of all who have been compelled to 'tgo to law" MT. Bonney also made some suggestions concerning measures of reform as follows: 'Let the law declare that no ono shall be heard in 8 court of jus tice except upon the condition of submitting both to do and to receive substantial jus tice without regard to any technicality or matter of form" "Let the law pro- vide that no judgment shall be set aside or reversed in any case, civil or criminal, pro- vided it shall appear from the whole record that substantial justice has been done" If these things could be done the law would be much more efficient and respected than it now is
Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-15

back fence like streak of greased lightning. The great North American raccoon had gotten in it's work, and had resumed it's search for reaches. Yesterday the gentleman who is the proprietor of the cat met the owner of the coon, and in the course of conversation, remarked: sT don't know what to make of my cat. He has been moping around the house for a day or two looking as if he had been through 8 sawmill. One of his ears is gone. and there isn't enough hide on his shoulders to cover a button" The owner of the coon smiled absently, and ventured to remark that the cats had been fighting good deal at night lately in the back yards, and that Thomas must have been in the melee
Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-15

The business in dressed meat has grown to enormous proportions in Chicago. More than 7,0O0.O .O00 hogs and 2,0oo, 900 head of beef cattle have been slaughtered there in year. These are conveyed to the stock yards by eighteen different railroads. The killing is now usually done by shooting the animal just back of the ear, and machinery does nearly all the work of dressing. It is only three to five minutes from the time a bullock is shot until he is quartered ready for the ieebox. The furnishing of fresh beef to the Eastern market began only a few years ago, when one firm undertook to send choice cuts to several hotels near Chicago, and found that the plan worked well enough to prove the feasibility of shipments te more distant points. There were delays and losses at first, but a suitable refrigerator car was soon invented, and now there are no difficult ties in the traffic. After the best parts of the carcass are shipped, the coarse meat is canned or made into sausage, the blood dried, and the bones ground for fertilizer, the horns sold to comb makers, and every scrap turned to account some way. s'We are sell ing the best loins for eleven cents pound" says leading slaughterer, ''and, adding cent for freightage, they cost the New York dealer twelve cents. That is for the very best quality, such as he sells for about twen- ty-five cents"
Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-15

In the current number of the Medical and Surgical Reporter Dr. c. L. Dana gives a record of experiments which disprove the current notions that raw oysters digest them selves, that they are always more digestible than the cooked, and that fermented liquors dissolve or digest them. He found that the oysters large liver cannot even digest itself, much less the rest of the oyster; that half dozen oysters roasted in shell-or simply boiled will be digested nearly, if not quite,a rapidly as the same number raw, although larger stew with butter, milk, etc, of course takes longer time; and that oysters grow hard in ale or beer, instead of dissolving.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-15

MT. Goodwin, ''the gentleman from East Hartford" does not want tho Senate to make George N. Woodruff Railroad Con- missioner for another term, but it is proba' ,ble that MT. Goodwin will be disappointed.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-15

The resolution to submit to the people a prohibitory amendment to the constitution has passed both branches of the Maine Leg islature on preliminary vote and there is no doubt that the amendment will finally be sent to the voters of the State. The vote upon it will be very interesting.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-15
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Three ex-Governors have died within g week-ex- Governor Jewell of Connecticut, ex-Governor Smith of Wisconsin, and ex- Governor Morgan of New York
Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-15

When the census was taken most of the people of this country were busy. It ap pears from the compendium just issued that there are 25, 518. 1920 males of all ages in this country. Of these 14.744,942 are recorded as regularly engaged in some occupation. This would leave 1o,773,s78 who are not workers. But the census shows that there are 10, 15S, 736 male children in the country under the age of sixteen years. Deducting that from the total male population leaves only about six hundred thousand males over that age who are not engaged in some money making pursuit. Only 2.647, 900 women are enumeration does not include the large num- bsr who are busted about housework and similar unspecifed pursuits.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-15
Falling From Great Hefghts. IEr nm kha I.nndnn Eiald l

On an aerial trip in the balloon Owl, in Sep tember, 1S80-the voyage being limited as to time by the conditions of the contest in which we, the aeronautical party in the car, were engaged-it became necessary to make 8 rapid descent On first approaching near the earth at Dunmew, in Essex, the aeronaut found that, by coming to ground there, he would risk catching the telegraph with his anchor. Ballast was quickly, and perhaps lavishly, thrown out, and we darted up to a height of 2,O00 feet On again preparing for descent the valve was twice opened, and out, of course, rushed volumes of gas. The Owl fell plumb 1 1900 feet in one minute and quarter. The remaining sand ballast, as it was thrown everboard flew up in our faces, being quite insufficient to check the descent of the balloon, which, being somewhat after the shape of the bird whose name it bore, did not offer so much of the parachute resis- tance as more bulgy envelope would have done. We came to grass with thud that sent me about limping for six weeks after ward, though none of the other three occu- pants of the car suffered from the severe Doiie- -sHakingI ntion this incident because it may interest Mir Stradling to know that our breathing was not in the slightest degree af- footed by this rapid falling through the air. We were all perfectly conscious, and as calm as men might be who had some reason to fear that the next second might be to them an eternal one. Capt. Cheyne took the dis tance on the aneroid as we fell, I took the time, g young American kept the record. and Mir. Wright, the aeronaut, stood with grapnel ready to strike the earth before the car struck, and so to tighten the balloon and break our fall, as it did, or might not now be able to sign myself Another aeronaut says that he fell from his car GO feet into plowed field without loss of consciousness or any serious injury. MT. Coxwell, [ know, on one or more occasions, finding his on emerging from cloudland, danger ously near the sea, descended with great velocity.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-15

looking toward reform of the jury system. It is proposed, instead of leaving the selec tion of jurors to the County commissioners, to create through appointment by the Cir cult judges of each county board of Jury commissioners, which board shall perform that duty. It is proposed that the cemmis- sion shall consist of three members holding no other office, appointed for three years, and entitled to $5 per day for time actually spent in the service
Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-15

Mount Carmel Cider. ID OTTLED for our retail trade. The quality this D season ie very hue dall E. R. HALL 6OHs
Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-15

ity, and if they pass tariff bill, the same howl of dissatisfaction will come up and put in peril our success in the next Presidential election 5
Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-15
VOL. LII.
J. N. Adam & 10.

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