Nebraska advertiser., 1876-12-07
MISCELLANEOUS.


about $50, 900.
At Columbus, Ohio, on the 18th ult.
a man named Taylor Cook from Cul-
pepper, Va, insane from drink, hung
himself in his cell. making rope out
OF two pocket handkerchiefs.
The tobacco warehouse of Newburg
Bros. & Co., Cincinnati, was destroy-
ed by fire on the 3Oth ult. Loss S25,-
600.
1t Is officially announced that Sir
Bartle Frere has been appointed Gov
ernor of the Cape of Good Hope.
Moody and Sankey are still engag-
ed in carrying on the religious reviv-
al in Chicago, with great success.
4 suit was decided last week at In
diapapolis, between George Van Hou-
ten and the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and
st. Louis Rrsilroad company, Van
Houten obtained verdict of 81 600.
In this case it was shown that Van
Houten refused to give up his ticket to
the conductor until provided with a
seat. He was offered a seat in the
smOkiDg- car but he claimed that was
not a first-class car and refused it,
whereupon he was put off the train.
Daniel c. Jones, Amos Marsh, and
William Marsh were killed, and Tho
mas Davis and Joseph Phillips seri-
ously Injured by the explosion of a
boiler of portable saw-miIl near Oak
Hill, Jackson county, Ohio, on the
10Th ult.
Jacob Baumgartner, alaborer at the
Vulcan Iron Works, In South St.
Louis fell into ciay-oTusher, on the
30th ult., and was literally smashed to
jelly, nearly ali his bones being bro.
ken and bis body crushed to a shape
| less macs.
British manufacturers are complain
| ing shat the street cars used there are
made in the United States.
The orange crop of Florida will be
larger this year than ever before.
The township of Rusk In Cherokee
County, Texas, receives $I5, 600 FOR its
crop Of sorghum sirup.
Norfolk, Va, claims to he the second
cotton market In the United States,
according New Orleans the the first
place and Charleston the third.
A numeros5 pilgrimage of Ameri-
can and Canadian Catholics 10 Rome
will occur in the spring to attend the
Pope's Episcopal jubilee.
The raisin crop of California Is as
suning enormous proportions, and
Will soon supply tue entire American
trade.
A dispatch from Berlin says: An
order which is in preparation for call
ing out all Russians undep fifty years
age, is regarded as proof that the gov
ernment is preparing for all oontin-
gencies. and has depressed the st.
Petersburg bOurse.
The main building of the Centenni-
al exhibition has been sold to the In
ter-State Exposition Company for the
sum of $3.50 900.
The telegraph line which has been
in process of erection all summer,
reached DeadwoOd Dec. 1st, and was
the occasion of universal rejoicing
there.
Fifteen hundred barrels of fish are
being shipped from Green Bay, Wis,
weekly.
1t Is thought that the exports of
wheat from California during the
present fiscal year will amount to 65O,-
900 tons. leaving a surplus of 80, 600
tons for consumption and seed purpOs-
ses.' Since July 1st about 5000, ,OOO
centals have been exported.
The captain of whaler recently |
all Esquimaux who in
formed him that a tribe of Esqui-
maux, living far nOTthwa ara of Cum
berland Gulf, many days ago massa-
cred Capt. Crosier, second in COM
mand of the Franklin expedition.
and five other whites, who refused to
surrender their guns and ammunition.
The agricultural machinery works
at Council Bluffs were destroyed by
fre on the 1st inst. Loss S35. 900.
The debt statement shows decrease
Turing the last month of S457 ,662
,oin in treasury, S798 .Sl471; eurren- !
~, S1l, ,743, ,215 %; special deposit for +
of certificates on deposit, |
40, ,725, 900.
ZEN. MCKENZIE THRASuES THE CHEY-
ENNES.
Additional particulars of General
dcKenzie's fight with the CheyenDes
vas received at FettermaD on Both ult.
The victory was most complete, the
Dtire village, with all its winter
torres of subsistence fell into the
lands of the troops, leaving the Chey-
nnes, the bravest and most warlike
and of hostiles, wholly destitute in ,
be face of rigid winter, the cOntem- 4
lation of which fact caused them to
ght with desperation. Their loss in 7
.ilIed is about twenty-five, and :,
arge number wounded. General Nc Il
-enzie's conduct is characterized as D
entailing only the loss OF OF .
Ger, Lieutenant Mckinney, Fourth 3
avalry, of Memphis, Tenn ana L