Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 10, 1885, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. @uana Ovwion Mo, 914 Awp 018 Faswax Be. fww Yonx Omon, Roox 8 Tarsvws Bomo- e, | ey The Weskly Bos, Pablihsed every Wedseaday ans, rowTrA. @ns Year, with promiem. with ’ O M onthay withowh premiaim ©ne Month, on brial. oonnmsrorpENOR | elating bo Fews and Editerial et TR LY SUSHOSS LTI Bustnesw Letters and Remittanoes should be A reonea s s Bien, PUMECNG COMPARY, OWANA. Oheoks and Post offis orders 40 be mads pAY- hle 10 the order of the YAE BEE PUBLISHING €O, Props. R ROSEWATER, Eoron A. 1. Witch, Manager Daily Oiroulation, P. O. Box, 488 Omaha, Neb, AccorniNG to the Herald 1t was trea- son to the demooratio ticket for any dem- ocrat £ Iag behind and fail to work for Boyd, but 1t was not treason for M. Boyd, momber of the national democratic committee, to sell out and trade off half of the democratic olty tlcket to lnsure his own eleotion, e Arren getting hls own man Friday, Jackman, to telegraph to the Lincoln Journal that the Nebraska clty and Lin- coln rings of the disgruntled democrats well-nigh defeated Boyd, Dr. Miller asks in the Herald, *“What does this mesn?” The doctor propounds a conundram to himself, and then he wants somebody else to anawer it. — Wi repeat it again that James E. Boyd i not elocted by the honest of this gity. If hotakes his seat he does so by bribery, fraud, wholesale perjury and corruption. He will not do it with his eyes closed elther, for he knows what means were used, There were no less than five hun- dred votes cast for him by men who had no right to vote in Omaha, and by re- peaters who voted on dead men's names. Boyn's letter was Boyd's- best cam- palgn document. Don’t burn it.—Her- No, indeed, we will not burn it. We want to keep It as a memento of Boyd's monamental concelt:and his lamentable want of discretion. The idea of a man who wants to bo senator writing such a lettor and making a confidant of J.'B. J. Ryan. If anything was needed to show the soft apot in Bogd's composltion that letter doos it. Ax expression was made in the edito- rial on the eleotion of Mr. Boyd and the good men chosen to the ity councll 1n the Herald yestordsy morning which soem=d to cast reflaction upon the *“citl- zons” movement, It was not 8o Intended a3 s elsewhero shown in the paper this morning. —Herald. This sort of crawfishing and spology may do for the decoy ducks that worked the citizens movement, but 1t will not satlsfy the republican buslness men, who wero snared lato Miller and Boyd's drag- net for the glorification of the democratic botaos. § Tuu lower house of the leglslpture of Tllinots has done one good thing at loast durlng its several months’ seesion. It has passed a bill providing that employes shall be pald in cash for their services and not in trade. It is to bo hoped that the senate will concur, as this law has long been needed In Ilinols, where it has been the custom cf mineowners to py the miners in orders on their own stores, thus compelling them to take thelr pay in trade and submlt to extortionate pricos. This system bas been nothing moro nor loss than robbery, smd has mado slaves out of the miners. The sye- tom has also been practiced to some ex- tent in other branches of industry. where large numbers of workmen arc employed. Its sbolishment will not ooly prove bene- ficial to the workingmen, but it will put an end to the monopoly stores of tho employers and allow competition n trade, which will result In cheaper prices. Thero are other states in which such a law as that contomplated by Illinofs is needed. — Ix ita deaperate attempt to justify its uncalled-for bolt of the republican ticke? the Omaha Nepublican resorts to petti- fogging and falechood. Even admlitiing for mere argument’s sake that our etrle- tures upon Goveraor Dawes and our op- position to the election of Lalrd and Weaver were wrong, the Iepullican, whose principal proprletor is chairman of the republican state central committee, can not justify its support of James E. Boyd for mayor. But when that paper charges that the Bze supported Morton for governor it wutters a malicious berefaced falsehood, It is a noto- rlous fact that our editorlals against Morton were published by every repub. | lloan paper in the state, Including the Omaha Republican, and 100,000 coples wara struck off in the Kepublican job office and circulated as campaign docu- ments all over Nebraske, The Bre has never pretended, and does not now pretend to be the organ of the republican party. Its princlples are republican, and when the party nominatlons are made by republiaus Instead of rallroad hirellngs It supports them, But the [Republican has set fteelf up as belng the oflicial organ of the party, Casper E. Yoat, its male pro- prietor, is chalrman of the state central committes. As long as he holds that position. he 1 in honor and duty bound, »ot only to aapport the party nominees, but to use all honorable means to sccare thelr c'eetlon. When ke fails todo eo, and his psper goes over to the enemy, he bacomes a traitor to the party and com- mits & breach of trust which Is simply Wfamous, All the quibbling and lylng which the Republican may do cannot re- store It to the confidence of republicans. |BOYD'S SPEECH. Mr. James E. Boyd, mayor.elect, made & serenade speech, which llke all other his other speeches was ocarefully pre- pated and ready to deliver to the re- porters before it was delivered to his ad. mirors, According to Boyd there was only one lssue in this campaign, and that was whether treops were to be employed in Omaha to suppress riot, and whether he was justified in putting Omaha under 18 {martial law when ho was magor three yoars ago. M. Boyd declared, with ha usual bombast, that he mado no mistake three years ago, and that to him Is due the honor and glory of giving confidence to our people and prosperity to oo olty. Why did not Mr. Boyd plant him- self gqusrely on thls platform beforo the election! Had ho doneso Instead of rosorting to double*dealing palaver whh working men It would have burled him under a mountain of dissenting votes, It Boyd had deliversd thst serenading speech before the eleotion Marphy would have boaten him a thowsand_votes with- out lifting his hand, There s no poli- tleal capltal to be made out of this matter now, but we repeat what wehave #o often ssid, publicly and privately, that Boyd's conduct in calling for troops three years ago was an outrage upon the psople of this city and a robbery of the tax payers of this state who had to foot the bills for his moral cowardice. Think of a valiant mayor who vaunts himeelf on his great bravery,sitting In hiscarriage looking from Kountze's hill down upon the dump to see an expocted conflict between the po- lice and the working people. In the first place he violated his duty by im- porting police from Plattsmouth when his own police had done nothing to eup- pross the trouble, and In the next place he was too cowardly to face the work- ngmen himeelf and order them to dls- perse as he was In’daty bound. He made no attempt to arrest any of the ringleaders, but Induced the sherlff, whom he had not even asked to assist In maintaining order and arresting the dis- turbers of the peace, to join In a lying dlspatch te the governor, stating that they had exhausted all their authority end were Incapable of suppress- Ing a dangerous insurrection. Suppore Mr. Boyd was mayor of Chieago, how often would he have to call for troops? Hardly a day passes without some labor trouble occurring in that city of much more formldable proportlons than that in Omaha some three years ago. How does Mr. Boyd justify the oc- cupancy of Omaha with troops for two weeks in the tace of the fact that three days after the trouble on the dump, and while the troops were on their way and betore they reached here, perfect order prevailed, and nobody was molested? If there was a dangerous Insurrection in progress, as the governor and presl- dent were agvised, where was the insur- rectlon all that time? How was it with the great Missouri Pacific strike a few weoks ago, which reached all the way from Texas to the Nebraska line? Did the mayors of 8t. Louis, Kaneas City and other towns show the white feather and make arsenals of themselyes because working men were obatructing travel and traffic? Instead of proclaiming martial law and calling on the presldent for troops, the governors of Texas, Missourl and Kansas, called upon the officers of the Missouri Pacific to treat with their employes and accede to the reasonable demands made by them. The railroad authorities did eo, and the trouble was over without bloodshed. We defy Mr, Boyd to show another in- stance where a democratic msyor was scared out of his boots in a city like Omaba and called upon a republican gov- ernor to put his clty under martial law. And yet Mr. Boyd says now that he made no mistake. Was there no mis- take in his failare to close the saloons while the troops wero here, and was there no mistake tn conulving with the con- cealment of the murderer of Armstrong? The ¢ruth fs that Mr. Boyd is one of those men who believe themselves infal- lible, They make no mistakes. They are like kings and emperors who mnever con make mistakes. But how does Mr. Boyd justify to the busldess men of Omaha, and particularly that class who believe he did not makea mistake, his alllance in this campaign with the very men who organizad and led those labor troubles? Mr. Boyd, for the past week, has been cheek by jowl, an arm, with Ed Walsh, Joha Quinn and other instigators of turbulence who were indloted at hls Instance, Mr. Boyd, posing as the ehampion of law and order, and at the same time whilo he owes his very election to the dirty work of mer- cenary labor agitators, s about of the wsme plece with his other false pretenses in this spring's cam- paign, Tae last ogngress finally passed a bill authorizing the psyment of the French apoliation olalms, which had been before ocongrees for many years, These claims grow out of the treaty entered into be- tween the United States and France In 180L In the treaty of 1778 between these nations, the United States agreed to protect the French West India {slands, The government, however, did not llve up to the treaty in the "war which fol. lowed between England sad Frauce, but took a neutral greund and violated the troaty in other ways. Durlng the wars waged from 1793 10 1800 on the monarchs of Europe by the ¥rench, American vespels and goods were selzed by priva- teorsmen commissioned by France, and the claims growing out of these selzures wre what are known as the French spolia- tlon claims. In the treaty entered Into between France aud the Unlted Stutes in 1801, dhey mutually renounced all claims agalnst each other, As these clalms gasinst France belonged to eftizens of the Unied States whcss goods and THE DAILY BEE-FRIDAY APRIL 10, 1885 shipn £ were welved, It rested with this country to Indetanify them for thelr tosses, the United States having assumed the obligations of France when the gov- ernment used these oclaims to effoct o compromise, These clalms amount, with Interest, to about $10,000,000. The speclal commissioner who has been ap- pointed to go to France and Spaln ls Col. Broadhead, of St. Louis, whote business it will be to “obta'n all possible Information from the archives of those governments, The distribation of this 810,000,000 will bring a fortune to quite a number of persons whose claims amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars each, while to a large number of claimants it will bring smaller sums, ranging from $1,000 to $10,000. The clalmants of course are the descendants of the persons whose property was destroyed, and the majority of them no doubt long ago gave up all hopes of géttlng anything. The persistent efforts, however, of those who had the large claims wore at last crowned with succees, which was to the great ma jority an unexpected result. THE BRANDING IRON. The Herald proposes In the fiiture to deal with the so-called democrats, with- out much regard to persons, who conspire against thelr own party to strlke down their own men, even at the cost of pun- Ishjng such men as Boyd who dare to do their duty In the public service. They shall be duly branded at the right time that the democracy of the state at large may know what manner of men these traltors to the democratlc party and to good government are who *‘wear the liv- ory of heaven to serve the devil in."— Herald, The crack of the whip of the demo- cratlc boes resounds over the land. It sounds very much like the lash of the Yankoe slave driver, when he outdid the native-born southerner in domineerlng and bull-dozing, These poljtical bull- whackers propose now to have a regular round-up.» They look upon the mass of the democratic party as a herd of cattle. They propose to use the brand “B & M.” (Burlington & Missouri), on the flank, and “M. & B.,” (Miller & Boyd) on the neck. These brands,’ of course, will destingalsh the faitbfal who are to be fattened on political swlll, while the dem- ocratic steers that stray from the herd are to be branded witha “D” on the forehead aad starved into subjection. 1t will be either a feast or a famine. Loyalty to Boyd and Miller means plenty. Opposition to boss rule means the lash and tortura. But how about the republicans who voted for Boyd! Are they to _be branded, with “M” for ‘“Mugwump,” and are they to be properly cared for at the democratic crib? Tt would seem taat a rale is not good unless it works both ways. Miss Sweer, the Chlcago penslon agent, who refuses to resign at the request of Commissioner Black, without some good and sufficlent reason being given, is backed up by the representative “mug- wump” newspapers, the New York Tines and the Evening Post. Presldent Cleve land will be very apt to pay somo atten- tlon to the protests of these papers. It is a civil scrvice test and there being a woman In ,the case, we predict that plucky Mies Sweet wi§l continue to hold the fort. The Times ssys: 1t 18 not easy to see what excuse Gen, Black, the commissioner of pensions, can give for his couree which will seem suffi- cient to the secretary of the Interior or to the president. Ho has himeelf officially admitted that Miss Sweet’s case comes with the class of whom Mr. Cleyeland stated in his letter to the national ctvil service reform league that no removals should be made merely to make placss for other persons. Khe is obvlously not an offensive partisan. She has confess- edly filled her office well. Her removal admits of no explanation other than that her placo is wanted, and tho presl- dent has sald that no removals should be made for any such rtason. It is to the president’s own Intelligence and sense of public duty that Iiiss Sweet appeals Her case is in no senso political. She has not held her place as a partlean, and has indeed held it so far agalnst strong partisan opposition and some not very honorable plotting on the part of the politiclans of her state. The president can, and we have no doubt, will, make her appeal the ocoaslon of renewlng the evidence of his firm attachment to sound adminfstrative principles and showiog the country that there is to be no exception to his logical application cf them. Ay this eentimental gash about giving women and handsome girls employment around the leglslature as clorks is a very expensive luxury. As arule very fow girls, excopt those who have been specially engaged on such work, are competent copylsts. Most of the glrls omployed during the last ses- sion of the leglslature wrote a poor hand and were very Incorrect In their work, Several important bllls, which cost the state thousands of dollars in perfecting, have falled to become laws on acoount of clerioal errors made by such incompetent clerke, One of these bills was the one creating the office of register of deeds The intentlon of the, bill fwas to croate such office in countles having 15,000 in- habitants, but the blll was engrossed o a8 to read 1,500 inhabitants, and in that shape it was passed. We belleve that the leglslature should employ none but competent and experlenced clerks here: after. It may cost a little more, but it will prove much cheaper in the long run, Tae question now s, did Boyd and Miller vote the oltizens' ticket or the stra'ght democratio tlcket? - If they voted the stralght democratlo ticket, then they are both koaves and bypocrites, because they claimed that they wera in favor of throwlog overboard the bad men in both partles and voting ticket which the ex- tra select commlittee put forward in the interest of good government. If they went back on the democratic ticket and voted for Stenberg, Leng, Hitcheock, Bailey and Goodman they were rank tricksters and traitors to the democratlo party, and ought to be branded as such. |advice then? TheOmaha Republican s Wili Dr, Miller and James E. Boyd tell this communlty which of these two tick- ota they voted? They dare not do it. Tue prohibltion wave has at last struck Council Blafls, but as yet the wave oannot really be called anything more than a gentle ripple. The petition to the olty council, signed by some 400 persons, asking that the saloons be closed, kas been ‘‘referred,” which probably means indefinite postponement. The councl] does not teem dispored to be In & hurry to deprive the clty of the $24,000 annual reveune that is belng derlved from the saloons. Besides, Oouncil Blaffs 1s and always has been too much of a froe: and-easy weatern town, and too ncar the Missouri river and Omaha to take kindly to prohibiticn, Sourn CarorniNa has & model civil service blll. Under this law, which is very stringent: In Its provisions, colored peoplo aro ontitled to equal accommoda- tlons for equal price, and they obtain these accommodations without question or hindrance. There are no separate cars for colored people on the railwaye. Those who pay first class fare ride In the first-class cars, and thoss who pay second- class fare rlde in the second-class cars. In some eouthern states, however, the colored man is not treated in such an im- partial manner, and probably will not be for some years to come, It was thought that with the conviction of two of the most expert democratic “fine workers,” the electlon in Chicago on Tuesday would pass off without being tainted with fraud. But it seems that the Oltizena’ assoclstion was mistaken in this bellef. Not only did the ‘‘fine work- era” get in their work, but they went so far as to break into a store-room and steal a ballotfbox. This of conrse occurred in a precinct which gave the Cltizens’ candi- date a handsome majority. The Citizens’ assoclation will have to send another batch of Carter Harrison's strikers to Joliet. 0 Berore Miller and Boyd begin the branding of democrats it is hoped that the soclety for the preventlon of cruelty will make a vigorous protest against any such barbarous proceeding. It may do to brand deserters from the army, but if such a custom is adopted by the bosses with regard to the democratic party in Nobraska, that party will not come into powerin this state for a thousand yeara, TaE latest war reports from acrcss the ocean have given another boom to Amerl- can food products. Pork and lard have taken a big jump upward, and in one dsy Mayor Boyd has made more than enough to cover his recent campaign expenses. Agatn ara we led to repeat the oft-quoted proverb, *“It s an ill wind that blows gocd to no one.” Tue Central Amerloan troubles have done some good In the way of glving our navy a little needed oxerolse. VOIOE OF THE STATE PRESS, First Result of Cleveland's Election. For the flrst time since its existence the Omaha Republican carries the name of a democrat at the head of its columns as & standard bearer for its parly, and fights for him a most gallant battle. This isthe first result of Cleveland’s election, and it thus, too, vindicates the Omaha BEE, which more than once has refueed to support the regular republi- cen nominees, bat which has always been belabored by the Republican for 80 doing. As the editor of the Republi- can grows older ho grows wiser, and he caw’t do any better than to follow the ex- ample of Mr. Rozewater. We would not be eurprised at all that the new depart- ure on the part of the Republican is the first gatep toward its becoming a full fledged democratic paper. Republican editors have so long been in the habit of being on the bread and batter slde of American politics that they can’c very well reconcile themselves to being leit out In the cold and wet. Itshould not befor- gotten that the democratic candidate of the Republican is the Nebraska member of the national democratic committee, in whose koeping, it says, Is all the federal patronage of this state.—[Lincoln Demo- crat. Balt, Although the Plattsmouth Herald is twenty-one years old it is decldedly fresh and green. It ought to be ealted.*- Omsha Republican. Tt Is better to be green than to be rot- ten. If the Herald was located in Oma- hain Boyd's balliwick it undoubtedly could become ‘‘salted.” Judging from the Omaha republican campsign, it 1s easy for a paper of greater pretentions that the Pattsmouth Herald to hecome “galted.” Mr, Boyd asa pork packer deals largely in *‘salt,” and the present spring there is nothing fresh about the Ropublican, But the offenslve aroma from the Omaha Republican reaches the nostrils of reputable republic in the state, despite Its liberal *‘salting;” “‘salt” will not save it. In certaln stages of de- oay It Is good, but when a republican paper of state circulation and acquaint- ance takes up an offensive democrat like Boyd, the head and front of the demu- cratie party in Nebraska, and_glves him cordial support for an office little below a state office in worth and power and prestige, the Plattsmouth Herald sub- mits thst it is & question beyond the reach of *‘salt.” This support of the Omaha Republican, s given to James E. Boyd in the face and inopposition to & atraight republican tioket that was pat In the field by many of the best, and most influentlal” republica in Omaha, The Omaha republican wounld have done well to have remembered that there ls another day and snother time coming to the voters in that city. The time will come when the Om- aha Republican will be clamoring for its party support; what reply can it expect then to its importunings from Mr, Mar- phy and his supporters at the present thme! ‘What then will be the result of the Re- publican’s ridiculous attitude now? When the Omaha Republican demands npRgt for atate and leglslative tickets, what it expect from Mr. Murphy and the honest fightiog republicsns fn Omahai Will oy bave avy use for the Republican's now engaged in supportivg a rank and rabid demoorat; it Is sowing the wind and it will as surely reap the whirlwind, The Itttle Platsmouth Herald prefers to be and remaln forever fresh and green rather than to be a republican of that ealibre.— Platwsmouth Herald. Abdieation, Fremont Herald, The followlng which appeared in the Omaha Herald on the 4th is a solemnly serious announcement that the great, and gflitlcslly virtuous George L. Miller, M, ., bas rotired from the partnership of Miller & Boyd (see Boyd's letter) in con- trol of federal patronage in the state: A NECESSARY NOTICE I find it neceseary to request of friends In the state to ttop sending petitions for appolntments” to postoffices and ~ other offices in our state. 1am not signing any petitions, nor shall I forward any petitions to Washington for any body after this date Grorae L, MiiLer, This is cne of the most remarkable edlots of the nineteenth century! Itis a sharp and ringing peal of thunder In & olear and cloudless jolltical sky. What does it mean? Much Import is there in this question, As men seldom do any act without an object in view, it s only falr to assume that editor Miller had some personal objeot to accomplish in issuing this ukase. As he has not seen proper to disclose hls object the question repeats itself in every man's mind, what does it mean? In order to relleve tho inquisitive mind of an aroused and expectant public we take upon our- melves the task of explanatisn and will throw a broad stream of light upon the darkness now enveloping the meanlng of this antocratic proclamation. Miller and Boyd et themeolves up as the almoners of federal offices in this state (s Boyd letter); transacting their business upon theso false protenses they used the promises of these offices to ob- struct and prevent the demooratic party, through lts organization, the state com- mittee, to advise the appointing power in the matter of the bestowal of these oftices for the benefit of the party. As usual in such cases one office was promised to a large number of official seekers, while in truth and fact as far as in them lay they had pawned it, each offico, to a singlo ropresentative of the gllded political three-ball shop. The offices are being pawned—*‘put {n soak;’ the many promises for them are etill outstanding and to be met. The malls bring to the aenfor member of the Mrs. Mandelbaum firm reminders of these obligatious. The day of payment draws nigh, and to escape writing twenty letters in favor of twenty men for the same office, M. L. George withdraws, throwlcg the responsibility upon the surviving partner—poor Boyd! The {dea sought to be conveyed in Mil- lor's open lottor is that heis 8o pressed with business that he had not time to glve answer to solicitations, under former promises, for his ald In obtaining offices, and throngh his plea thinks to get re- lieved from the consequences of former promiges. It 18 easler to promiee than to pay, and refusals and neglecta to pay are evidence of bankruptcy. An assumption of power and greatness Is attended with difficulties and meanness. e— A CARD-WRITER'S SCHEMUE, Departing from His Regular Business to Write Applications for Office, Chicago Inter Ocean, *How's business, Dick?” “asked a re- porter of a card-writer in one of the down-town hotels. *You mean how is card writlng? Well, that's N. G. just now. 1 haven't written a dozen cards in aweek. But I have struck something in which there is a good deal more cash,” and Rechard, who slings a mighty fine quill, pointed to a sheet of fools-cap on which were the words, “*The Hon. Dan- iel Mannlng, Secretary of the Treasury ete.” “‘What is it?” queried the roporter. ““Why, that's an application to Dan Manning.” *‘An application, eh?” «Ya-up. 1 don’t wrlte any morc visit- ing cards now, as I have as much as can do to fill orders for this kind o’ work. Oh, it's improving, I tell you. Why, in tho last three weeks I have done noth- ing elss than make out applications for oftice. Seems everybody In town wants something. Say, 1've written eight ap- plications for the collectorship. Yer, sir; that's honest. Why, you wouldn’c believe me if I told you the diflerent men who want that pesition, This is an wpplicatlon for that office.” ““Fact?” “Yen, sir. Say, quit that now,” said Dick, as he noticed the reporter was try- ing to discover the name of the appli- cant, *‘Ob, No! I can't tell you who they are. All 1 have to doisto copy the . form, ond then the signaturcs are vasted on. When L got this order I was asking Dan, Manning for the Marshal- whip, I don’t believe you could hit the neme of the man who wanted it (n a doz- en gueesss, Every domcerat in the city seoms to be looking for something, An application I wrote yesterday bad the words: *1f not at your disposal, would be willing to take a clerkship, as I mean to move to Washington with my family, abyway.” Yos, sir, and that gentloman has a protty sott gnsp in the county bullding, 1 wish this thing would keep up, as it's bringing in the ducsts, Say, what office do you want ? I'll write up an an applicaton for you half price, and I'll turnlsh a score of ‘siga.” You hsve about as much chance of getting an office as some of the fellows I've been writiog fo. “‘What are your prices 7’ #Well, If you say anything about the applicant’s character and the work he performed during the last umfnlgn, ‘which, sir, ended so successfully and glorlously for the honorable gentleman who now occuples the executive mar and through him for the democratic party,’ I charge 85, If it is merely a A BORDER HERD. Life §cenes in Kentacky in Earlier and Wilder Days. John Sellers and His Contomporaries ~Tragic and Striking Indidents of a Stirring Life, and How it Ended. San Francisco Call, John sellers was born In Kentucky early in the present century, of obecure parentage, according to some statements, there baing even a cloud upon his birth. However trao the allegation, it dld not provent him, when grown to stalwart manhood, winning the affections of an attractive Kentuoky damssl for wkose favor ayoung men by the name of Bakor, one of a_wide-spread and power- fal family, had long sued in valn, Asa matter of couree the disappointed eultor could not view with equanimity the suc- cesr, where ho bad failed, of one whom he had regarded v vastly his. inferior, nor were the other msmbeis of his clan, who conslderod that u slight hed been put upon thom all iathe rejection of tholr represextative, any better ploased. That the individual whom they consideed the caute of that rejection should pay for it, oven with his wife, wasa determina- tlon the soch arrived at, but not caring ty rlek, not law but Iynching, by a crime too palpably marder, they awaited an op- portunity for accomplishing their fell purposs under clrcamatances which might give a different color to the sflair, meanwhile treating their intended vlc- tim with great apparent friendlizers. A DEADLY AFFRAY, Being invited to a ‘‘log-rolling” at the farm of one of the Baker's, Sellers went there, since, though he suspeoted some ulterior object, ho nevertheless consid- ered It better not to remaln away lest by #0 80 doing he should convey an Idea to those whom he felt to be his enemles that he feared them, and thus Invite a serles of prosecutivns, almost certain to finally culminate in his destruction. He was accompanled to the scene of rthe “log-rolling” by a friend, who, also sus- pecting the trué state of aflalrs, would not consent to sea him go alone. Sus- piclon became w certalnty when the two discovered upon reaching the ground that 1o ona but themselves were proeent who dld not belong to the Baker family or the Hills, tnelr relatives and allies, They affected, however, not to notice the clr- cumstance, and the work of tne day was accomplished without incldent. But the recreation of the evening, which com- bined drinking and athletic sports, had bardly begun before a quarrel was forced upon the two friends in spite of thelr earnest efforts to prevent it. A “free fight” ensued—two opposed to nearly thirty—in the course of which the two were separated for some moments Seller’s strong arm soon having freed him from immedlate adveriarles, he looked about for his friend. He saw him some distance away, held prostrate upon the ground by two of his foes, while a third stood over him poring a huge stone wherowith to crush In his skull like an eggshell. The man had periled his life in Seller's cause, and the latter’s blood boiled in his veins. Fiercely he ehouted to the man who was about to do murder, but the wretch gave no heed. The etone was about to descend. No movement, however swift, could avert its fall. There was ouly one vay. Unerringly the bal- let sped, and the wouid-be murderer fell lifelese to the ground. Pistol In hand, Seller rished to the spot, tore loose the grasp of those who held his frlend, and before the consternation caused by the fall of the dead man had tlme to abate the two, driving back the fow who at- temptcd to oppote their prcgress, had laft the epot In safety. IN THE MEXICAN WAR, Sellers duly surrondered himself to the sheriff, and was {ried for tho killing, but acquitted, public opinion belng strongly in his favor. He enllsted for the Mexi- [ |oan wor smong thefirst of thevolunteers, distinction in engogements. A particalar instance ot hls bravery was shown in onme of the last confllcts of tho war when ho dashed alono into the midst of a_troop of Mexlcan lancera, captured the standard and boro It safely back to his comrades, though charged upon by the wholo troop of his enemies with levelled lances. Another example of his ateadfast cour- age mey be glven. Around the campfire ono evening during the campeign ho be- cam Involved in a dispute with a notcd firo eater and dueliet, George Dawkins by name, finaily giving the lattor tho lio, Davklny' ~ sprang up livid with passlon, and leveling pistol, exclaimed in tones which could not be mistaken, ~ ““Say that again and Il kill you!” The pistol was within & ard of Sellers's head, snd the latter new of too many blocdy pages In Daw- king's history to doubt his intention, but he gazed unfalteringly into the latter's blazing eyes and eaid with & stern em- phasla. and many sorved with “I pay you're an infernal liar! In the very instant of pressing the trig- ger Dawking' attentlon was arrested by an aminous clicking sound with which he was onlytoo familiar. Every man cf those around bad sefzed his rifle and he knew the report of his pistol would be the signal for {ho riddling of his body with bullets, With a sullen oath he rushed from the spot. Therels a peculiar sequel to this Incldent, The two did not meet again for some time, as Sellers was & fow days latter attacked with ma- liria and conveyed to the hospitwl, where ho say for several weeks. One day when convalescent, he walked outside the bounds of the camp, and while ritting, wesk and listless, by the roadway, no one belng In eight, steps approached, and »|in a moment he was confronted by George Dawkins, stalwart and in per- feot health, and arwed to the teeth, The of the North the Beuth. Inoffensive physiclan, who belng & new- comer and without ‘‘clan” connection, woemed a safe object for thelr mal'gnity. Sellers, however, fook his part, and counseled him to resist thelr annoyances —advice which the dootor followed only too falthfally, a shooting scrape and the death of one of his tormentora being the Immediate result. Sellers alded him to ercape, and not long aftorward himmelf went to Iowa fora time upon matters of businets. While he was absent an- other bloody affea Evans' two sons a number of thelr father's enemies, o which the former, singular to rolate, though mere boys, not mll{ esoaped unharmed, but killed sev eral of thelr assailants outright. They wero thrown into prison, and their father and Sellers immediately roturnod to the atate to render them all the sssistance possible, though both well knew the rik they Incurred. Sellers particularly was now once more bitterly hated by the Hills and Bakers, who swore openly that they would take his life, and sent him word of their intention, Ho replied that he would not unssy or undo any of his words or deeds for all of their tribe, who had ever diegraced Kentucky, and, pending the trial of the Evans boys, busied himself with the care of hls farm. A TERRIBLE BATTLE. One day, while at work in a tobacco field at some distance from the house, he saw fifteen mon, the whole fighting force of the Hill and Baker clans, ride up to the fence and dismount, He saw in an instant that a final strugglo was on hand, and,having chivalrously Insisted that his hired man go to the house and get out of barm's way, he himself entered his stone house, which stood in the centre of the field, and within which were his weapons—a whole arsonal. He borrloaded himself in by wedging a bafrel tightly in the doorway, and awaited the attack, Throngh the numerous cracks of the builing he could watch any movement of his foes, and in a moment he saw them leap the fence and coming rushiog toward him, One, two, three! As many times as his rifle cracked, and the three foremost of his oncoming foes fell in thelr tracks, dead or dying. But those remaining did not alter, but rushed fiercely on. Thelr blocd was up. They felt that this in- deed must be a death struggle, and in thelr minds all other thoughts were lost in a mad desire to be the first to strike a death blow at this bated and dreadful enemy of thelr race, As they drew nearer the pistols of theig solitary foe took effect, and two more of their naom- ber fell. Still they rushed on, and in another moment thronged tho doorway. Sellers kept stern guard, and the man who would have leaped the barricade sank back dylng, with a bul- ot in his brain, But now from the many crevices in the walle the leaden missles rained around the environed man, while he himeelf knew hardly whero to turn. Realizing the disadvantages of his postlon, he sprang out through the doorway, weapon in band. While yet in the air, a bullet fired from behind passed directly through bis heart. Not a cry escaped him, not a sign that he was hurt; but alighting firmly on hie feet, he turned in his tracke and fired his Iast shot, spattering the walls of the building with the brains of his own murderer. Then his Iron limbs stiffoned and grew rigid, his deadly eye fixed and glassy, and he fell slowly for- ward upon his face, dead, still grasping the smoklng weapon which he had used to such terrible purpose. And the wretched remnant of those who had eought his life that day, stood over him in silence, awed into respect for his body. and for the moment forgetting thelr own dead kinsman In eavage admiration of his awful struggle for life. TEST YOUR BAKING POWDER T0-DAY: Brands advortised as absolutely pure CONTAIN AMMONIA. THE TEST: Placo & can top down on a liot stove untl: heated, thew & Gl will Dot be fw ocourred between romOve the caver and ol quired to detect thy prowwnco of ammons DOES NOT CONTAIN AMMONIA. 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OF MORTUAGK, Public notice I hereby given that 1n pursuarce and by virtue of a decree entered In the above cause on the 23d day of December 1854, L KIllsL Bierbower, special master in chanceyy n said court. will on the 18th day of April 1556, at the hour of 10 o'clock in the forenoon of the sald day, at the North door of the United States Co ing, in the city of O District of Nebrasks, sell at auction the following de. scribed property, to'wit: louseand Post office bulld. Douglaa County, 8fate and East balf of North west quarter aud the West half -east quarter of acotion twenty,one (21), et of wection twonty-two (23), township ‘Nebras recommendation from business men I'get| v mon10oked at each other in silence $3. A recommendation for marshalship [ for 'y moment, when Dawkios's lips quiv- of this state which I wrote covered threo| ored and his eyos filled, and ho ssld hur- psges of foolseap, without counting the riedly: *‘John, old'fellow, you're awful siguatures. 1 got €8 for it. Well, »|ycl V1 guow” Joure out of money. long. Come around when you want any- | 'Hore take this- take it, I tayl—and think,” and work was began on 8n0ther | whoncier you want mors, you know wan's ‘‘want. who got it for you. Good-bye, and he ——————— strode awsy before his astonished audi- Another Rroken Bank, tor could speak. NorroLk, Va., April 9,—The Farmers’ bank of this city mado an assignment to Walter ¥, Irvine, for the benefit of creditore, Upon bis return from the Mexxan The assignment was caused by the suspension | war, Sellers, now immensely popular of the Exchange bank of this city, The last| with his old neighbore, was elected to an statoment of_the bauk showed tho paid up | important local office, though not with- capital to bo 830,000, and the surbloe 8600 L out an affrsy with s rival osndidate Caldwell Hardy is president of the bank, A ) ——— whom he nesrly cut to pieces with tho Killed by & Oareless Drugglst, :fl’)'p(‘:"i:l:““ Lllll‘i““ld w.btuu(h’hlflffii Hpasly) Togan o e ks 1o wounded slightly o six places by as Wano00, Neb., April 0. —A farmer named |y, hyllets from his sdversary's platol. Arthur Keyes dropped dead in the drug store | by (1d enemies, the Hills and Bakers, of J, B, Lamb to-day at 10:30. 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