Omaha daily bee., 1874-05-05
STATE JorT1HGs.

1lnav1an ~ years old, commltteu
by hanging to a sour Willow
rec near Wahoo.
Ashland has been shocked by
the discovery of a dead body in the
canal lock.
-Wahooh has put in nearly S12,OOO
worth of improvements in ninety
days.
Red Cloud, Webster county, is
to be in a very ~iourishing con-
dition.
The Hebronites are going to
have a race course.
Harvard complains that the
propelling wind mill attached to her
town pump is in a chronic state OF
disability.
Sutton is setting out shade trees.
Edgar (Clay county, anticipates
an art gallery.
The first excursion of the season
will be that of the NJ. E. Church OF
Plano, Illinois, to Fairmont county,
Nebraska. The excursionists leave
Aurora, Illinois, May 26th, and re-
turn June 5th.
Governor Butler is urging
the Pawneeites to vote $3.50 600 IN
county bonds to a branch railroad
between Pawnee City and the main
line of the AtchiSon and Nebraska
road.
Grand Island wants another
wagon bridge across the Platte to
accommodate the people south OF
Hamilton county.
Palmyra, Otto county, is erect
ing a steam Touring mill.
Bellevue has opened a class in
practical telegraphy.
Stanton has her own Bugle now
and the bugler is Lewis Ley, editor
and proprietor.
Eggs are quoted at six cents per
dozen at Stanton.
Hooper is hopping up a large
two story hotel.
Three or four companies OF
United States troops are now sta
toned at Loup City, and an en-
gineers' party is at present engaged
In surveying a telegraph route to
some point on the line of the Union
Pacific, probably, Kearney.
-Wahoo is happy, and all be-
cause she has got a newspaper. It's
name is Reveille, and Mclaughlin
is the proud parent of the bantling.
"A target shooting match will be
held at st. Helena, May 18th and
18th, the principal prizes to be con-
tended for being a Dsvonshire COW,
eight town lots, two rifles, and one
double barrelled shot gun.
Table Rock exported six car
loads of fat cattle to st. Louis last
week.
Crete shipped twenty car loads
Of wheat to eastern grain markets
last week.
The average number Of entries
at the Lowell land Office is 125 per
week.
Lowell is overrun with hogs
four-legged ones of course.
Paramount proposes to do her
own banking.
Lincoln gin mills now ADVERTISE
pure rum analized by the Universe
ty Geologist.
Lincoln is now making active
preparations for the erection of the
U. s. Post Office and Court House.
Seward is doing a heavy grain
business.
Work on the new transfer depot
at Kearney is progressing rapidly.
The town lots in Kearney be-
longing to the Union Pacific have
been temporarily withdrawn from
the market.
Bell Creek has established a
backyard.
The City Marshal of Kearney
has had his salary raised. 1t is now
$50 per month.
Fremont is submitting to a te-
dious operation. She is being BIRDS
eye viewed by a Chicago artist.
Corn planting is going on brisk
ly in Gage county.
Work on the new Episcopal
Church at Beatrice will soon begin.
The structure is to be 22x44, after
plans of an Omaha architect.
Beatrice has caught the woman
crusade fever.
Columbus still continues to be
the leading grain market in the
Platte valley.
The Columbus fire department
have secured a S400, homemade,
hook and ladder truck.
st. Paul has the railroad fever.
-Loup City does not sport a sa-
loon, but she is blessed with a drug
store.
Bohemia is the name of a rising
city just staked out in Colfax
county.
A car load of Bohemian emil
grants arrived at Schuyler last week,
for permanent settlement i'm Colfax
county.
-Tecumseh has established a
cracker factory.
-Tekama has gained several new
business firms this spring.
The formal breaking of ground
on the Grand Island & st. Joe Rail-
road at Grand Island was to have
taken place Saturday.
"A half interest in the Grand
Island Times has been bought by
MI. j. B. Davis, q brother Of o. F.
U. P. land commissioner.
Mr.. Davis Will conduct the editorial
of the Times.
-Plattsmouth is getting to be
quite a manufacturing centre. They
have a plow factory, machine shops,
three cigar and tobacco factories i'm
full blast, two wagon and carriage
manufactures, washing machine
factory, two bakeries, and lastly but
not leastly a musical instrument es-
adjustment in the near future.
Sarpy county census returns
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