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Year: 1877

Editor Nebraska Advertiser.


il appears to US there can be no
more desirable spot TO live here on
this earth than in this neighbOrhOod
peace and plenty are to be found here
And the desire to live here becomes
doubly so when we come to shake off
this mortal coil. and pass on to that
unseen land where it is said the lion
and the lamb shall lie down together
And if there ever was saints and an
gels walked this earth clothed in wo-
mans apparel, they are to be found
here. If there is such a thing ss
smoothing and softening the pillow
of the sick and dying by human
hands, ii has and will be done here
The angel forms our noble women
that are here to be found. They are
like the branches that spread out
from the tree of life-they drop the
golden fruit from their hands in kind
attentions TO the sick. And we feel
like naming a few that we are per-
sOnalIy indebted to for these atten-
Year: 1877

- Fruit men of Pawnee county. if
you ever made an effort to do a big
thing, make bigger effort on the 18th
and 18th inst. Take pains and select
the finest fruits you have, so that they
may be forwarded to the State Fair.
Ex-Gov. Furnas is going to try and
beat Pawnee county, but he can't do
1t, II our fruit men but do their duty.
-Pasrnee Republican.


If the fruit growers of Nemaha will
aid the effort "Ex-Gov. Furnas" is
making in behalf of the county, we'll
wager a bushel of fruit that there will
be the largest and finest fruit exhibit
ever made in the west. And further
that if Nemaha county is beaten by
any other in the state, lex Gov. Fur
mas will throw his hat as high as
any other man.


The State horticultural society has
arranged with all the railroads in the
state, to transport fruits for exhibition
at the State Fair, free. Now. there is
no excuse that the fruit growing char
aeteristics of Nebraska be not fully
shown at Lincoln next week. If il
Is not, then neither the railroads nor
the society will be to blame.


1t Is hoped all fruit from this county
Will go up On Saturdays train, that
II may all be on the table before the
fair is fully open. Remember that
nothing is received at the State Fair
after Monday.


Let what is to go from our County
FAR TO the State Fair be packed Fri
day evening and go up ON Saturday
for reasons given.
Year: 1877

humanity. Let each strive for truth
and moral purity, and error end de-
pravity will disappear. It hiss bean
said. in truth, no doubt, 1t is any
opinion. founded on an intimate
knowledge OF the subject, that spirit
ualism is doing as much, quietly and
unostentatiously. as all other agents
combined, to break down and under
mine the incongruous system CT truth
and error, known as MormOnism"
Year: 1877

- Vegetation is rapidly maturing
these clear. dry. warm days aud cool
nights. On Monday and Tuesday
nights it seemed cool enough to frost.
vet we guess there was none except per
haps on low land. and so lightly as to
do no damage.
Year: 1877

= There was a corn procession in
town on Tuesday. Thirteen wagons,
one right after the other came NOV
ing up the street, got weighed and
then moved down again. A fellow
can hardly get around these times for
corn.
Year: 1877

- The children, and the young
gentlemen and lady students, of our
High School, are delighted with the
school and speak with respect and adj
miration of their Principal land teach
ers. When such is the case we al
ways feel sure that the school is all
right and that the best results may be
expected.
Year: 1877

This promising and popular young
Stallion can be bought LOW for
CASH, or on accommodating terms
to responsible buyer. A few of his
colts can be seen on the fair grounds
to-day and tomorrow. Call On or ad-
dress a. S. Holladay or George
Year: 1877

Ladies intending to make long
journey by rail without an escort


would better read this and stay at
homo "Mrs. Florence Watson, a
richly dressed Ohio lady, took the
cars ut Chicago last Thursday for
Iowa City, where she intended to
visit her husbands relatives. A
man took the opposite seat and
looked at her intently. After


while he left the seat and another


man took his place, and subsequent.
ly four men sat there in turn, each


watching her closely. 1t was now
dusk. The six men, after holding a
consultation with the conductor en-
tered the car together and an
nounced that she was a crazy woman
and the wife of one of them hence
the passengers would understand


why she had been watched by them.


In vain did she protest that it was
lie. Nobody believed her. At


Rock Island her captors endeavor-


ed to put her off tho train, saying


that she must change cars for Iowa
City, but she clung desperately to
the seat. The passengers shrank


nervously from her, and she was
completely in the power of six des-
peradoes AS the train drew near
Durant she recognized her brothers
in-law upon the platform. He was
waiting to meet her in accordance
with a dispatch which she had sent
from Chicago. She shouted to him,
but her captors gagged her, and in
moment the train was in motion.
At Wiltcn, where she had to change
cars, she attempted to escape, but
was surrounded by her prosecutors
aud forced to take refuge in bag
gage car, after she had sprained her
ankle. At Iowa City she made a
frantic appeal to the conductor to
take her to the leading hotel, where
the landlords wife would vouch for
sanity. The conductor assented,
and the unhappy woman was inden-
tilted and rescued. The strain had
been too great she tainted. When
the conductor returned to the train
the six rufiins had disappeared. The
passengers, when they beard the
conductors account, admitted that
they had acted like fools in allowing
half dozen rascaels to swe away
q woman's sanity. 1t is believed the
object of the outrage was theft or
possible abduction with the in ten.
ton Of retaining her as q hostage
with the hope Of a large ra nsom


The appearance OF the lady su ggest'
Year: 1877

hurt, but the above list comprises all who
are known TO have been killed, and it Is
not believed by any one who is intsliis
gently familiar with the circumstan ces
that this number will be materially in
creased. The coroner has selected six
well known and responsible citizens who
will serve as his jury. BE will begin
his investigation on Monday next.
Year: 1877

Messrs.. Editors: 1t is with great reluct-
ance that ask space in your valuable paper
for the following communication. AS it
relates TO matters in part that concern the
publicI desire to put It on record where it
will be seen by the largest number OF citi-
zens and remembered by them when the
time comes that will give us an opportunity
Of getting rid Of such OF our city officials
Year: 1877

The popular dry goods house of E. II. Adams
& Bro 5g4 ksgGzne street. continues on in the even
tenor Of its way making people comfortable and happy
by dispensing the best OF dy odS and Housekeeping
goods such low prices that even the poor hnd them
selves able TO secure what they need. Beaides the
great questions Of quality styles and prices there IL
another which makes this establishment peculiarly
attractive to tho ladies' it is the extremely polite and
accommodating Of tho salesmen employed by
the firm they are prompt and patient respecttul 10
ALI and ever ready to oblge keep hotel has always
been corsid ered hard thing and praise indeed
to say Of 4 man, "he knows how to keep hotel " but
from our knowledge Of business We ara disposed to
think that RAINING dry goods store 10 much harde1'
and whom we say of friend Adams, that no knows
how manage dry goods establishment to tho salts
faction of the ladies'" simply place on record the
high opinion ladies Of New Orleans have Of him and
his store.
Year: 1877

Patrick ONcil, forty years OF age, was arrested by
the police OF the Fifteenth precinct Monday after.
noon aud confined ia one OF tho station house cells
Al an early hour yesterday morning he was found
lying dead IN tho cell
Year: 1877

BY TELEG GRAPH
THE RETURNING BOARD
UNPRECEDENTED ACTION OF CONGRESS
COUNTING THE ELECTORAL VOTE
MO COMPROMISE PROBABLE
The Republican Majority Know Their


Rights and Dare Maintain Them.
The President of the Senate will Do


His Duty.


THE LOUISIANA CASE
PITKlN'S PERSPCUOUS PRESENTATION
A REPUBLICAN DEMONSTRATION
Year: 1877

A minister in Wheeling, West Va, went to bed and was shortly after called by his wife and told that he was wanted below by loving couple who were anx- ious to be mated He donned his cloth ing and went down, and he found wo- man of perhaps 35 or 40 years of age, and stripling of 20. The expectant bridegroom was at loss how to proceed with a business which was new to hiIn. But not so with the woman. Seeing that her lover was hopelessly entangled, she spoke up promptly thus (" MT. Preach CT, as I'm the oldest, I expect I'd better do the talking. You see Charley, here, has stepmother, and she don't use him right at all. Now I'm 8 widow, and l want to take Charley home with me to- night and take care of him. Not that I want husband, because, if I did, I'd get some one nearer my own age but l just thought I would try and take care of Charley. So we'd like to be married right away" The minister asked her if the necessary license had been obtained, and upon receiving reply in the nega- tive stated that it would be impossible for him to marry them without that very useful document.
Year: 1877

the strong feeling In the neighborhood in favor of a respite, the Sheriff had to obtain carpenters from Chester and cart the materials for the gallows to Dolgelly with his own horses.

 Had it not been for the admissions made by the accused to the Police h. spector, it is not probable that convic- tion could have been obtained against him and had he not cut up the body of his victim after killing her, the verdict would have been one of manslaughter.

 In every case of this kind the minds of the jury are preiudiced against the pris- oner by the horrible details of the muti- lation of the body, and although from at- tendant circumstances it could fairly be inferred that the killing was done in moment of passion, from what has oc- cured after death the jury infer the pre- meditation essential to constitute the crime of murder.
Year: 1877

You will not say goodbye to her ?'' I said harshly.

 l He shook his head, and as stood there hard, selfish and jealous of him, saw him go down the path, and breathed more freely, for he was gone.

 Gone, but there was 8 shadow on my home. Cobweb said not word and ex- pressed no surprise, never even referring to the picture but went about the house slowly, dropping day after day, month after month, till the summer time came round again, and I knew that in my jeal- ous selfishness I was breaking her young heart.

 She never complained, and was as lov- ing as ever {; but my little cobweb was broken and the tears spangled it like dew whenever it was alone.

 Itwas as nearly as could be year after, that I, feeling ten years older, went to seek her one afternoon, and found her as expected, in the little wood, standing dreamy and sad in her old position lean ing upon the tree, listening to no bird song now, but with far-off longing look in her eyes that swept away the last sell fish thought in my heart. did not let her see me, but went right straight up to Eden's, learned what I wanted, and ill short time after I was in handsome studio in St. Johns Wood staring at the finished picture of my child-painted of course from memory framed, against the wall.

 As I stood there I heard the door open and turning stood face to face with Grantly.

 We looked in each others eyes for a few moments without speaking, and then in trembling, broken voice I said {:

 Grantly, I've come as beggar now. My poor darling-God forgive me I've broken her heart"

 It was my turn to sit down and cry like a child, while my dear boy tried to com fort me-telling me, too, with pride, how he had worked and become famous, and in few more months he meant to come down and ask my consent.

 But there, I'm mixing it up. Of course  he told me that as we were rushing along having just had tune to catch the express; and on reaching the station there was no conveyance and we had to walk.

 That scoundrel would not wait, but ran on without me, and when I got there panting and hot, I found my darling's heart was mended with all of that be- longing to the good man from whose arms she ran to hide her rosy blushes on my breast.

 I am not the selfish old fellow that I was about Cobweb, for here in the old place where they've let me stay with them, I pass my time with those two Aossy-haired little tyrants, Cobweb the Second, and the Spider, as we call little Frank. As for Cobweb the Second, aged two, she said to me this morning, with her tiny arms about my neck, and her soft cherub cheek against mine" Oh, grandpa, dear do yove % l"-and l love her with all my selfish heart.
Year: 1877

When room is to be papered, fill all the crevices where the plaster has fallen of with plaster of paris mixed with cold water. It dries quickly, and will not stain the paper. For cleaning mica use fine salt. For cleaning zinc, noth- ing is 50 good as kerosene; after using kerosene rub with whiting. If whiting is moistened with ammonia, it will very readily clean both silver and tin. To strain honey, first run it through oolan- der set in a pan upon the back oven afterward, strain through cloth. To make wax, fill small strainer-bag with rough comb, which dip in hot water. The wax will rise to the surface of the water, leaving the impurities behind. Repeat the process, and finish by melt ing the wax and forming it into cakes.

 BAD FOR THE SHER1FF.-A deputy sheriff recently set out to arrest two brothers, who had farms few miles from Waco, Texas. He found them at work in their fields picking cotton. He told them what his errand was. They stared at him, winked at each other, gently but firmly disarmed him, and ordered him tc go to work in the field and there he re- mained, picking cotton for dear life until the officials in his own frontier county heard of the incident and res l cued him.
Year: 1877

A lawsuit of considerable interest to
members of secret societies, and partic-
ularly to Odd Fellows, has recently
been begun by an Odd Fellow of this
city against four fellow members, who
brought to the lodge with which he is
connected a complaint charging him
with a misappropriation of the funds
of the lodge, and with other acts unbe-
fitting a member of the order. On the
principal charge, that Of embezzling
funds with which he was intrusted for
the purchase Of uniforms for Stratfield
encampment, the accused member was
acquitted by the committee before
which the case was tried. Against the
four members who preferred the charges
he has now brought an action of libel to
recover 1000 from each, claiming that
the charges were false and malicious,
and that his reputation has been
damaged to the amount of $4,000 by
their preferment. The papers have
been served, but the trial of the case
may not come off for some time yet. The
case eXcites much comment among
members of the order, and will be likely
to lead to much more should the case
ever be tried. Bridgeport Farmer.
Year: 1877

900 worth Of goods disposed Of. These
two parties saddle all their expenses on
the rctailerand he, in turn saddles all
ofhis expenses on the consumer.


The aggregate amount paid for the
salaries and travelling expenses Of drum.
mers Is simply enormous. It goes up in.
to the millions every year. And It is all
assessed at last on the consumer. Could
this immense expense be saved, goods OF
allkind could be sold very much cheaper.
No doubt Of that, There was time
when there were no drummers. Those
were the ante.railroad days. The
easy facilities for travel afforded by
railroads have brought upon the
country the drummer system in all its
present multiludinous power and glory.
The system is now as much part Of
commerce as the system Of bookkeeping,
and there is scarcely any more probability
that the former will be superseded than
that the latter will be abolished. The cir.
cular before us is not the first one sent out
by houses that have grown weary Of the
drummer System. We have yet to
hear, however, Of any important sue
cesses achieved by any house known
to fame. The celebrated firm Of John
Nazro & Co., Of Milwaukee, one OF the
largest concerns in the West with whom
some Of our Wheeling men have an ex-
pensive acquaintance tried this expert.
ment several years ago, and abandoned it
in a short time as failure. Aud yet
there does not seem to be my essential
reason why u successful business might
not be carried on without the aid Of
drummrra, provided the expense of the
system was really, and not nominally,
deducted in sales to customers. So
few men in trade are alive to
the necessity Of perfect good faith in
carrying out their promises to the very
letter OF fulGllmCnt in order to achieve
success in such an enterprise, that we
fear "new departure" such az is pro-
claimed in the circular before us, is hard.
ly possible. And yet, "a we have re-
marked, it might be made possible, and
large circle Of intelligent and reliable
customers might be secured, provided it
became certainly known that an abate.
ment from prevailing prices, equal to the
cost Of selling the goods through the
drummer system, would be invariably
secured by sending on voluntary orders.
Year: 1877

1t is reported that two Democratic
members Of Council from the Fifth Ward
assisted in counting the vote Of said ward
they themselves, being candidates before
the people. 1t is also rumored that coun
Gil purposes contesting their election al
the meeting this evening.


There is no doubt about the authority
Of the Council to Judge Of the election
and qualification Of its own members.
Year: 1877

Associate Justices Clifford, Strong,
Miller and Field, the four members Of
the Supreme Court, required by the
Electoral act to serve upon the judicial
branch Of the Commission, were this af.
ternoon each furnished with certified
copy of the act by the Secretary of State.
They will meet tomorrow TO select the
9Th associate, in accordance with its
proyisions.
Year: 1877

A meeting will be held at Gilbert Chapel
at the corner of Fourteenth and French
streets this evening, for the purpose Of in.
stituting Juvenile Temperance Legion.
Mrs. Beatty's Juvenile Temperance Lodge
will be present In full regalis. Officers will
be publicly installed The meeting will be
under the charge of Nelson J. Lee.
Year: 1877

Captain Whine, of the regular army,
formerly of this city, who has been stationed
in Colorado, is now on visit here. The
Captains hair is much more gray than
when he left Wilmington, but otherwise he
is much improved in appearance.
Year: 1877

road. These are some of the
reasons why we object to an ex-
tension of time to a company
which has proved faithless, with
out guarantee of better conduct
for the future.


It," says the Oregonian, "the
DISPATCH takes ground with
those who oppose all eubsi-
dies, and would have the north
west do without all railway CON-
munication for another quarter
Of century, we have no more
to say"


The grounds upon which we
stand arc identically embraced
in Mitchcll's bill, granting the
proceeds Of the sales, instead of
the lands in fee, which the Ore
gonian opposes. We approve of
Mr.. Mitchell's bill also in the
provision of allowing the grant
to relapse to another company
in case of forfeiture, as that is
the only means by which Port
land can secure the construction
of the road. If that provision
had been placed in the first char
ter, both IN regard to the main
line and a branch, Portland and
Seattle would by this time each
have had a read connecting with
the Union Pacific. If they de-
pend upon the Northern Pacific
neither of them will ever have a
railroad connection with the
east.
Year: 1877

James Benton informs the
Walla Walla Statesman, of re-
cent date, that he counted one
hundred persons heading for
ColEax. He states that nearly
all the bottom lands are taken
up, but back toward the noun
tains there is an amount of good
land open to settlement. They
have five saw mills on the Pa
louise, three of them operated by
steam power, and yet such is the
demand for lumber that the
mills refuse to take new orders.
Four Touring mills are now in
operation, and two more mills
will be ready for grinding in a
few weeks. Immigrants coming
in have means, and many of them
desire to purchase improved
farms. AS a rule the settlers are
satisfied with their claims, and it
is very rare that a man is found
willing to sell. At the present
rate of progress Whitman will
soon be the empire county of the
Territory.


This is only a small indication
Of what Washington Territory
will become with the completion
of the Seattle and Walla Walla
Railroad, and what 1t might have
been at this time. had the mana
gers of the N. p. Railroad Co.
carried out the design of the
munificent grant of land to con-
struct a line of railroad on the
/" shortest and most direct line to
Puget Sound" In that case the
magnificent country lying in
Eastern Oregon, between the
Cascade range and the Rocky
Mountains, would now be in di-
rect and cheap communication
with seaport market, from
which it could receive in return
an abundance of coal and lum-
Der at cheaper rates than any Of
the prairie regions of the old
Northwestern States can be sup
piled, making the lands in East
ern Washington more valuable
than the same number of acres
in any of the States a thousand
miles from the sea-board. The
transportation from this port to
Liverpool is less per ton than
over any five hundred miles Of
railIo DAD in the United States,
and two hundred miles of rail-
road from Seattle would reach
the heart of the grain growing
region of Eastern Washington;
a distance only equal to that
from the city , the centre of the
State of New York, where much
inferior farming lands command
from $50 to $3.50 an acre. Had
that railroad been completed and
the lands opened to sale and set
tlenent when it should and
Year: 1877

No trait of character is more
valuable than the possession of o
good temper. Home can never
be made happy without it. It
is like flowers springing up in
our pathway revlving and cheer
ing us. Kind words and looks
are the outward demonstrations;
patience and forbearancc are the
sentiments within.
Year: 1877

SUBURBAN HOMES FREE.
: As will he seen in our suburban column Of
this morning, Ira Brown has offered to give
away eighteen homes in the beautiful suburb Of
La Grange. This must certainly be splendid
opportunity for any person vino has gotten
tired of paying rent IN the hustle, noise, and
dust Of the city.
Year: 1877

which is counted upon as the great
present element of Ottoman strength, the
one Power that is to supply inexhaustible
battalions and every other element of mill
tary operations to bankrupt government,
will prove the early ruin of the Turkish
cause for. in proportion as this nation
recurs to the original elements of its force
and to the free use of semi-savage Asiatic
soldiery, in that proportion will it be DEM
onstrated to every capital in Europe that
the continued tolerance of this Power In
Christian countries is impossible.


Russia therefore proceeds discreetly in
the demand made that the action forced
upon her in this case shall be regarded MS
the action of the Powers collectively which
it is for her to execute. If the other Powers
assent to this it will give an entirely differ
ent character to the war morally from what
it would have if it were only the pursuit OF
the ancient quarrel between these hostile
races, with all the presumed purpose OF ter
ritorial aggrandizement that has been asso-
ciated with Russian politics through the
persistent habit cherished by our British
cousins of giving their enemies bad names