Omaha daily bee., 1874-06-09

The bridges on the Omaha road,
below Fost Calhoun, are reported to
be in a dangerous and impossible
condition.
A lime kiln has been started
about eight miles below Loup City.
From present indications 1t Will be
q success.
-Loup City is praying for some
preacher to come along and give
her wicked sinners a scorching ser
mon.
-Kearney county has elected
delegates to the proposed Sioux city
and Kearney Railroad Convention,
to be held at Columbus.
The residence of General Thayer
at Lincoln was struck by lightning
Thursday. No damage done except
some plastering knocked of.
There is some prospect for the
extension of the Fremont and Elk
horn road from Wisner to Norfolk
during the present season.
Meridian is passing away:
Many of he houses are being moved
to Alexandria, the new town ON the
st. Joe & Denver road.
The artesian bore at Beatrice
has reached q depth of 1853 feet. Ii
is now passing through hard lime
stone.
The Wahootes propose to build
that SIS, 900 court house for Saun-
ders county, during the present sea-
son.
The school section at K0arney
Junction is selling rapidly at an
average of $40 per acre. The school
fund will realize about 500, 900 from
the sale.
"A colony of eighty-three fam
| lilies have purchased 1900 acres of
land neal Madison, in Madison
county, and will settle there the
present season.
Twelve thousand head of Texas
cattle for the advance guard of many
| thousands that are now enroute to
the Republican Valley, reached Or
leans last week.
Mr.. Dibble, a Gage county far
mer, got through shearing his 1000
sheep last week, and estimates his
clip at from 5000 to 5000 pounds for
which he expects to realize from
$500 to $500.
Taylor Bradley, agent Of the
Winnebago Indians, has notified
the railroad companies not to per-
NIT any more Indians to pass over
their roads without q permit from
him.
Stanton county has held a rail-
road meeting and selected l.. Ley,
DIR. Bowman, and Geo. Graves, as
! delegates to confer with the officers
of the Kearney & s C R r company
relative to the building of their
prospective road through the county.
"A thrifty immigrant has just
located near WahOO with a family
consisting of himself and wife, and
twenty-one children; and another
family in which there are nineteen
children Is on the way to the same
locality.
The third camp meeting for the
promotion of Christian Holiness, as
experienced and taught by the Wes-
leys and their co-adjutors, will be
held near Bennett, on the Midland
Pacific railroad, twenty miles east
of Lincoln, beginning July ], 1874,
and to continue sever days.
Saturday morning, about six
o'clock, Mr.. Robert AshwOrth, an
old citizen of Nebraska City, saw a
skiff coming down the Missouri
river and surprising he could safely
land it, got beyond his depth, and
before aid could reach him he sank.
The most unremitting efforts were
made to recover the body, but with
out success
The following counties in this
State return as exempt under the
law, by reason of tree planting,
three hundred and fifty-fOur thou
sand dollars in round numbers;
Cass, Butler, jefferson, johnson,
Lancaster, Pawnee, Saline, Seward,
Thayer, York and Washington. In
the whole State the total exemption
will not be less than one million of
| dollars, which shows about twenty
thousand acres planted in forest
and orchards i'm the State the past
years.
There has been one hundred
and twenty-eight cOnvicts, during
the four years the penitentiary has
been in use. OF these only forty-one
ackno wledged their guilt. All the
others, according to their story,
were innocent men, who were
wrOngfully confined. OF the one
hundred and tw~enty-eight, forty
four have been pardOned, eleven
have escaped, thirty have had their
sentence COMMITTED, or were other
wise discharged, and one has
died. Whitebreast was the first
and only death ever had in the
penitentiary. There are now forty
persons confined in the prison, a
large per centage of which are I'M
der life sentence for murder. In
justice to the present management
we will state that the eleven men
mentioned above, as having es-
capped from the institution, broke
out together from the old building
in 1871, and one of them has since
been re~-captured.