Omaha daily bee., 1874-05-09
OMAHA BREWTlES.

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The "Sandwich Island" has
been captured by a new company.
The BEE building will catch a
Tartar in a day or two. 1t is to have
a new tarred roof.
Sprinkle, sprinkle, water cart,
we wonder where thou art" is what
the people are now shouting.
John Hogan Is on trial in the
United States Court on the charge
of selling liquor and tobacco with
out paying the required tax.
Bach is the name of a shoe
maker that has been mysteriously
missing from Dohle's since Tuesday
last. 1t is about time that he came
back, or his friends will think he
has been foully dealt with.
Holman, the livery man, Is con-
siderably exercised over the loss OF
a horse, that was run to death by a
hotel runner, Dinsmore by name,
who has ait out" it is said, to es-
cape the just wrath of the owner.
DR.. Ish has received aynew,
magnificent, and costly soda foun-
tain for his Farnham street drug
store. IT is now being put up, and
will be ready for operation in a
day or two.
Those who dance must pay the
fiddler. That's what Judge Wilbur
said yesterday to Tom Gardner,
when he fined him ten dollars and
costs for running a dance house con-
trary to the city ordinances.
William T. Pollock, son of
Postmaster Pollock at BrOwnville,
was yesterday tried and found
guilty i'm the United States District
Court, Judge Dundy presiding, of
robbing the postoffice at that place.
The Beatrice Cement Company
have bought out the Cement Pipe
Company's property at the foot of
Farnham street, which they will
hereafter make their depot for their
cement and cement pipe, which
they are manufacturing.
-Tableaux rspresentingBunyan's
work may interest some people, but
Smith says he a e plenty of
bunnions without going to the Bap-
list Church. All he has to do
to amuse himself i'm this respect is
to pull off his boots and stockings,
and gaze at his suffering feet.
The Cooperative Union of
Farmers and Mechanics have rent
ed the hall on the second floor of
No. 236 Farnham street, and are
fitting it up in elegant style. They
will meet there for the first time to-
morrow evening, and every Friday
evening thereafter.
An exchange says that the
Omaha City Council are disturbed
over an ordinance restraining chick
ems from running at large. If the
City Council would amend this
ordinance so as to include "old
hens,n il would be q fcoop de
maian on Miss Garrison.
Mr.. Wood, the deputy county
treasurer, and wife are grief stricken
at the loss of their little son, aged
three years and four months, who
died Thursday evening. The funeral
will take place from the residence,on
Godge street, between Fifteenth and
Sixteenth, on Sunday at 2 p. m.
Sheriff Turner, of Dodge
county, yesterday took a man
named Weber to the penitentiary
nj Lincoln. Weber was recently
tried and convicted at Fremont for
swfndling and forgery to the
amount of $4,000, and was SEN
fenced to five years Imprisonment.
Nov comes Henry Ward Beech
er, and says that he it was not-not
he. the Plymouth screecher-who
took for text, ats id hot.'
Twas an Omaha ex-preacher, who
to Iceland ''got uf-and got" We
would follow this hummer, to the
land of ~icicles, there to spend a cool
summer, had We a pass from Sick
les.
-Simones, the house-mover, a
yesterday arrested and brought {
before the police court for obstruct-
ing Douglas street last night, by
leaving his captain too far distant
from the building that was being T.,
moved. As the law provides a no. !.
tice to remove such Instructions =
within "a hours, he was discharged,
having not been notified.
Metz & Bro, the brewers, have @
a comical advertising poster I
for their buck-beer. The picture rep
a procession of crusaders
coming up Farnham street, with a I
flying, having on it the v
Ladies' Temperance q
League" A big old buck comes
gazes at il for a moment,
gives a jump, and goes through the
banner, performing the feat with
Is much ease as would the man on
he flying trapeze.
A war is brewing between the
ager beer brewers and the retail
'enders. The majority of the brew o..
rs recently raised the price of
ager to Sl2 per barrel, and the re- -
alters are now ''bucking'' against
he combination price. They intend
D circulate a paper among the
aloon-keepers for signatures, to the
feet that they will not purchase