The Red Cloud chief., 1875-06-10
TIE NEWS.

have just organized . brass b nd there.
The Grand Island Independent ID
responsible for the statement that %
iron mine has been found near Mo:
brara.
Two men, Cornelius Rice and Abra.
ham Knebel, we're recently drowned
10 the Loup River, Just south 6Co
uubus, while engaged 10 getting q
spiIe from the river.
A prominent member Of the Con.
Con. played a game Of base ball with
the gamin Of Lincoln one evening las,
week. What Of it? Wont those boy.
be voters 10 q few years?
Strawberries are plenty 10 Lincoln.
Would that we were there.
The State Journal questions wheth.
er it would not be better in q new
country to change from . County
School Superintendent to . District
Superintendent, two or three counties
to comprise q district.
Il severe hail storm visited Onaha
last week. The quantity Of glass need
ed 70 replace the broken psnes Of the
City Hall. is large. Mr.. Boards hot
house and plants sustained serious
damage.
Tho Omaha RepsJlican is response
bic for this; Hail stones fell at Platts-
mouth that were nine inches in cir
conference.
It is thought that the June rise Of
the Missouri river will be the highest
for years.
j. D. Calhoun, Of the Lincoln Star,
was married on the 3Oth, to Miss Odus
N. Alderman. Of Brownville.
The Lincoln Star thinks the McWa
tsrs murder needs investigating, and
calls on the officers to explain. II the
officers wont, the Star will, as it knows
al about it, and they will let News
ghost haunt said officials at every feast
If they don't rise to explain"
A lot of the Harvardites turned out
and broke Q lot Of prairie for the min
lister, recently. We don't know how
big either ''Iot" was. ~
The wife Of sir. james Melvin died
in Suttoa--fa s Thursday. She was
burned by the upsetting Of a lamp
some days prvvions.
w. H. Somers, Of Beatrice, has
planted three-quarters Of an acre of
peanuts.
Gov. Furnas says $1,000 would not
cover his losses from the hoppers. He
expects to have a quantity Of apples,
peaches, aud pears. Gov. +. has been
appointed by the Am Pathological
Society to deliver an address at their
meeting at Chicago next September.
No grssshoppers At Fsirmont but
plenty of gophers, which are doing
severe damage to the corn in Fillmore
county. 2
The Warrensburg mo. Neaos tel
how Prof Straight has set the exam
pie Of utilizing the grasshopper Is
food. The editor of the Ntscs was
present at the feast, With a. number of
other gentlemen and some ladies', at
the home Of the professor. The Nescs
We were helped to soup, which
plainly showed is locust origin, aud
tasted IKE chicken sonp-snd it was
good; sfter seasoning was added We
could taste . delicate mushroom favor
it wss better. Then came bat
ter cakes, through which locasts were
we'll mixed. The soup had bauished
I'll silly prejudice aud shsrpened our
appetite for this next lesson, and bat
ter cakes quickly disappeared also.
Baked locusts were then tried, (plain
hsppers, without grease or condimept)
md either with or without aocompani-
meats, e wss pronounced an excellent
dish. The meal v . closed With desert
. 10 Joha the Baptis-baked locust
aod houey-and # Ne knos anything,
Ne can testify that that Distinguished
Scripture character must have thrived
On his rude diet in the wilderness Of
Judca-
Prof. Straight wss secs the princi-
psi Of our Peru Normal Sehool, We
Adpertisr.
IF the &. hoppers come here. We
need, not lear starvation. We shall
oan euouga.to last through the WINTER
also.
Lincoln wants four car loads Of fresh
eggs IF there were four dosen here
Ne believe they would sell. for eees
have been "skaoe'' this seasos.
d.. Rich Of Republican City Who
died in May Of Asarf disease, was .
brother Of the editor a the Nemaha,
Valley Journal
The editor Of The Hastings Ls.r.oY
wants to buS a,deubled barrel shot gun.
what's lpsnow Dasue. getting ready
for another county ssak var ?-Fairbuzy
jNasetas -
What doesske want tie barrel doub-
Id for Perhaps the Gasssss nsaas
deshlsr hazsled. :
Ihe Josssef ays the Sksv OBJECTS
Ahm.Ainfornasioa y 70 he pre-
&hmf;sa-of - ca Clerk sGee."