The Red Cloud chief., 1874-12-16
STATE NEWS.

Pugiilsm on the rampage, tS,
lights at bloody row this week fs,i
cuffs shii.aiahs and other projec,ile
freely used. No one badly damaged
amin 10 arrests.
The Wyoming hotel a. Omaha hs,
been closed. Cause-too high rent
The Harvard Adcocafe has come
as an Illustrated paper-in a recent
number had a large cut Of the Cen.
%tcniai' building to be built at Phila
delphia.
The Grand Island Times says:
A correspondent writing to the
Press, says that a hotel in k%earney
had received -four from the aid society.
and asks If those are 10 need who can
afford to run a boarding house q
The Pes thinks all the hotels 10 the
city are in need and that the aid
society is but doing a favor for the
boarders, in furnishing the hotel,
almost anything that is eatable.
The Commissioners of Gage county
have engage! Hon. n. X. Griggs, Of
Beatrice, to accompany Judge Briggs.
IOmaha, to Washington, TO attend
to the interests of that county in the
y. L VI. land tax case, which is to be
argued in the u. ). Supreme Court
on December l4th.
Falls City has a mammoth pork
packing establishment, which is pay
ing ont W $1,000 per day TO the
farmers Of the surrounding county.
Alvin Ball,N2f Sarpy county, has a
cluster Of sixteen fine apples which
grew or a ten inch limb of a young
tree in his orchard
The boys at BrosnvilIe, Neb. are
skating on the Missnri river. The
river must have closed early or that
climate is naturally NOR. frigid than
ours.
Brownville has organized an Auxiliary
Aid Society, and some Of the best
citizens Of that city are ideutiied
Herewith.
H.. O. Minick, of Nemaha couaty.
was thrown from a wagon on Monday,
of last week, and seriously injured.
The Nebraska City Chronicle is very
bitter against the Superintendent OF
the State Insane Asylum. The only
trouble appears to be the inability OF
DIR. Stewart to provide for double the
number of patients than the building
will accommodate.
DIR. Converse has recently been in
tervicwed with regard to extending
the u. p. railroad through Polk
county, Neb., and he has agreed to
DO SO if the county will vote $74,000
to aid in the construction of said road.
On last Saturday morning constable
Geo. ID. Noble arrested j. Fred Steph-
ems for larceny. BY some hook OF
crook, slipped out of the constable
hands and made his escape. From
the reports that are in circulation
Fred seems TO be an old offender, not
only in this county but in Otoe. TAX
nns the general tone of the citizens
aS al evidence of likes and dislikes,
hereafter We would advise Fred to
make him.elf scarce about this town.
-fairmont BaHe;ion
The Kearrey Press advocates the
election OF Gov Paddock, for q. S.
Senator, so does the Hastings Journal
Beatrice LrpreSs anaTecumseh Chief
ton.
The Lowell Register ha suspended.
and is offered for sale.
The Beatrice Express is again. tbs
caucus system" Of controlling n.
Legislature.
\ fifteen inch wen of coal has bee,
discovered near Tecuulseh, johnson
county. Aaron Story found it. .
Some very tine-looking specimens o
building blocks made from a compost
ton whose chief part is Beatric,
cSment, were brought in last weel
by Nc, Chi,tcnden, of York Co.. whc
IN nufac,ured them, and are now OF
exhibition a. Somers & Ellis Office,
1t is claimed for these blocks that the,
are more durable than brick they are
certainly much handso,ss-r. and tina,
their cost Is about q third iess.-Be
atSice Erpross.
Dewitt, Saline county is excited Owe,
an e'opement. David Wood and Mis-.
Lizzie Castle ri. cut" one night ana
the'places that knew them know then
no more Each rode off a stoler
horse. Rther an ausp.cious star,
in life, that.
The Otoes who had been refused
permi>son TO go west to luns buffalo
this winter, recently received PERMITS.
ion 10 90 oat once more, and they
started a few days ago. Now they
are returning, Agent Griest having
cent word to them a, Red Cloud tina,
the Sioux are ~ the Republican in
large hunters. and that if they wen,
out, they would probably meet with