Omaha daily bee., 1874-05-29
OMAHA sREWTIES.

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cents . box.
The County Clerks office is be-
ing cleaned up.
-MaryH II. Peterson, aged So, an
inmate of the poor house, died yes
terday morning of asthma.
Henry Schneider, for permit
ting q nuisance on his premises, was
fined 81 and costs at the Police
Court yesterday morning.
The Probate Court room has
been supplied with curtains at last.
They were very much needed. as
Judge Peabody used to get mighty
hot there every morning.
Postmaster Yost is happy over
those new golden-colOred curtains
.t the post-ofice. Take a good look
at them. They are rich, and CORES
pond well with the elegance that
prevails in the curtain line In 'ha'
block.
Lost, on ths l4th of May, a set
ter slut, lemon and white color;
.nvbody returningth the same to Sc.
TAYLOR, northeast corner Douglas
and Fifteenth streets will be hber-
.uv r.v.rded. may2ets
at will be o relief fora certain
samctedr editor Gin Omaha to Know
that Gerald Massey delivered his
lecture In Boston on the looming
religion" nearly a month ago, anu
fhathe Is now on his native soil.
"A man named Rogers, who had
carved out q term i'm the peniten-
tiary, was arrested Wednesday in
this city on thesuspieion of his being
m escaped convict. He vas dis
CHARGED yesterday when the facts
in his cass were ascertained.
Jim Williams, alias Jones, the
colored man who got away from the
sheriff Of Washington County,
some weeks ago, near Florence,
while being taken up from Oma-
hs to b tried for horse stealing,
va re-capturedi in Omaha last night
by Policeman Thorn.
Whitney, Bauserman q Co.,
Wholesale grocers, received an order
for bill Of goods yesterday from the
west, and accompanying it was an
order "for one good, active, healthy
servant girl. Wages, $500 to $500
per week. The Messrs. W., b. q
C., are going to fill the bill or bust.
Mr.. Haight, the local passenger
agent Of the Chicago and North
western railway, living on Eigh-
tsenth street, is considerably exer-
cised over the fact that some cpl
curean providing sneak thief found
his cellar door left open Wednesday
night, and stole four half-gallon
jars Of preserved plums. W
James Bruce Adams, the man
who was going to marry Miss Hay
lard, but who was arrested and put
in fail ON an indictment for robbery
Of . postofice, selected a couple of
birds and o bird cage at the Variety
Baxar, - Q present to his intended.
The birds remain there yet, and
Rberhart wants to know, what shall
do With our birds?
A nrsn named ]. r. Gilbert, a
painter empicved by Mr.. E. G. BY
Icy, went on a spree "Wednesday and
when arrested and taken ~ laii last
evening, . gold pen, which had be-" !
stolen from Gen. O'Brien's Office i'm
block, was found in his
1t Is supposed that he stole
It, - well q q coat belonging to the
General, which was missed at the
same time with the pen.
The idea of the Herald reporter,
who cannot talk a word of French,
trying to interview Rochefort i'm Ger
man h very laughable. The Herald
man did not exchange a word with
but the few ideas con-
In his report was obtained
hom the ambassador of the BEE,
who can converse in French. The
hove statements viii explain why
he Herald did not give an account
Il Rochefort's escape. 'Rochefort
impaired the facts to the BEE editor
any hesitancy whatever,
nd Q full and interesting review will ]
. found on the inside of to-day's
,aper. !