The Lincoln County herald., 1870-10-20

Brick Pomeroy and Gideon j. TucksY
have sold the New York Democrat 10
James II. Lanbert. ali f
Mrs. Mcdonald drove her son through
the streets Of Jersey City, perfectly
naked, because he played "hooky" from
school FH,a
Joshua Bushnell, Of Nemaha county,
Ksnsas, hss twenty I've acres Of winter
wheat nearly six inches high, and as thick
as the hair On dog's back.
The coroners Of two Mippesota coun.
ties are having o quarrel over the body Of
q man found murdered in tho rosd, each
claiming him 10 get the fees.
The Kirksville Tlibuue, which origin.
ally hoisted the KeClurg ticket, has
been converted, and comes out . strong
Brown paper. '' y .'H
An old lady Of Tippeoanoe, Indiana,
has just found use for q $40 gold piece,
which she had been saving thirty Eve
years to buy her coffin. .
A leading farmer On Door Prairie,
Ind, has contracted to deliver Eve thou
sand bushels Of shelled corn at Lsporte,
this month, at 40 cents per bushel--this
years crop.
Rev. Phoebe A. Hanaford is obliging.
The other night she arose good nsturedly
after midnight and married couple who
anxiously called upon her. ..
A San Francisco young lady, engaged
in . fair for the European wounded,
wrought with her hair in the center Of
handkerchief "Vive IA France Up to
date, the handkerchief has realized 81.
900.
At the Texas State fair. Mr.. Cooke, of
Bexar county, performed the remarkable
feat Of riding changes Of Texas horses
s,xty.oue miles in two hours and Fifty Elk
minutes.
| Remedies for red nose are now in or,
der. Among others, q contenp nporary Gays
that the true remedy for u red nose is
Temperance and the free use OF hand
kerchief. Tho organ can't be red when
its blew.
Two years of Governor Scots ndminis
tration in South Carolina have increased
the liabilities of the Stn,e at the rates OF
Eve millions o year. The only hope the
people have is Of being e. Id out ut hue
tion to some respectable purchaser
Civic genius is beginning to rise IN
French military circles. A Paris editor
Della Fargo, led the most successfu n
pulse Of the Prussians that has yet been
nade from the beleagured capital
The suit which was brought in Wash
ington, in the name Of Col. Lafay ette Ba
ker, now dead, to recover the reward Of
fered for the capture Of the murderer of
Mr.. Lincoln, has been pronounced by the
court to be invalid.
The New York Sun reports Grant AT
the Fifth Avenue: The "poliricaI i''u-
minati were received by Grant with s,olid
urbanity. He persisted, as usual in call.
ing everybody by somebody else's name
and answered all questions within half M
hour after they were propounded y
Mr.. Wendell Phillips promises to be-
the most thoroughly nominated man ever
put upon the course Tor the Governor.hip
Of Massachusetts, He il the Prohbitory
candidate; he is the Labor Reform
candidate; and now the friends of Femi
nine Suffrage propose TO nominate him.
The present census will show that the
United States has fifteen cities Of more
than one hundred Thousand Inhabitants.
There arc but three countries that cgual
this-the East Indies, with twenty one
cities Great Britain, with sixteen; aod
China, with fifteen.
Jimmie Reynolds, a 16 year o'd boy,
of Blackhawk, Mississippi, had a little
disagreement with his step father aid
got the best of the argument by filing The
old man full Of buckshot If anybody
covets the position Of stepfa,her to youoc
Reynolds, the situation is open. Rct,r
ences exchanged.
A married couple left this vicinity a
few years ago to make their home in
Missouri. They hought farm, which
the wife-who seems to b. the be-, ms.
Of the tw0-managed to get in hes own
name. Whereupon. becoming tred OF
her Iiege lord, she gave him City ooilors,
and, told him to "git." He 'go,t' and il
back here among his friends. ore8u
County (Ind Gazette.
1t is reported from Washington ina,
the President has been induced to take
hand iu the Alabama a. wei as tue
Missouri election; only, there beise
some money to make out of the ioru,or
and nothing but a psrtisan malice to grat.
ify in the latter, he viii, probably under
take coeroive measures for, Alabama
which he would scarcely dare to do in
Missouri The great issue in ,Aisbama
is law granting twenty millions of dol
lars State aid to railroads, which honest
taxpsyiug citizens want repealed. Seps-
tor Warner and the raiload ring don't
think so, and have got down on thei,
loyal knees before the President asking