Nebraska advertiser., 1876-06-15
GENERAL NEWS.
Cleaned From our Exchanges and
Telegraphic Reports.

ton occurred between two men NAM
ed Lambert and Striker, about a
horse race, and Striker was killed.
The Centennial managers have
concluded to close the doors of the
international exposition on the Sab
bath.
On the 9TH the receipts of admission
to the Philadelphia exposition grounds
amounted to $3l ,673-the largest OF
any day since the opening.
On the Sth inst. duel was fought
at River Bend, Colorado, between
A. d. Jessup, jr., and man named
Davis. They were armed with Win
chester rifles. In the second exchange
of shots Jessup was killed.
A band of Sioux Indians last week
attacked some herders near Jules
burg, Col, and killed three of them.
No loss to Indians.
A man who engaged in an Indian
fight on the road to Custer, says the
indians did not adopt the usual style
of skulking and ambush but came up
bravely in an open field delivering
and receiving shots.
The president has favorabIy con-
sidered committing the sentence of
John l. Bittinger, gauger in Missouri,
convicted of revenue frauds, from
penitentiary to county Jail imprison-
ment.
The Rhode Island Republicans
have nominated Senator Anthony for
fourth term in the senate of the
United States.
Quebec has been desolated by an
other vast confagration. No less than
1000 houses were burned in what is
known as its "St. Louis DISTRICT"
The Presbyterian general assembly,
at Brooklyn, adopted a resolution ap-
proving the use of the term Sabbath
in designating Sunday.
A candidate for the nomination for
governor of North Carolina thus puts
himself in the field: II will heare
announce my self as candidate for
the guvenent election next fall, & /
will give Equelright to all, yours re-
spectfully, Rev. James Anderson col
ored."
Philadelphia, June AT Belmont
Park, Goldsmith Maid attempted to
beat 2:14, with the following result ::
2:213, 2:i62, 2:25.
The Louisville Courier-Journal is
crazy to have somebody to hit Blaine
again, and says that 1.-The sight of his
political annihilation would afford
the south as much pleasure as would
visit to the Centennial"
The Cincinnati Enquirer continues
its warefare on Governor Tilden, and
declares that he is the pitiless foe of
the west and south.
The Enquirer is the leading Demo-
cratic paper of Ohio.
Mrs Alice Butler, young and beau
tiful, was brutalIy murdered at High
gate. VT, one night last week. Her
skull was crushed by repeated blows
from an ak. She was alone with the
hired man, Edward Tatro, who is
charged with the crime, but he denies
it strongly. He was the first to run
to n neighbor farmer and give the
alarm that "Mrs. Butler was being
murdered" He tells story about a
man attacking him and Mrs. Butler
and how he made his escape.
Recently lady went on the cars
from Des Moines to Columbus juno
ton, Iowa. Arriving after night a
man offered to escort her to the hotel |
she inquired for, but instead of doing |
so he took her to an unfrequented |
part of the town, outraged her person
,y force and left her. After she re-
covered her strength, she found a
lotel, where she was cared for and
lad the wretch, whose name is My
er, arrested and lodged in jail.
a young man named Richards,
lear Leavenworth, recently, while
to draw the loads from a
hot gun had the ramrod driven thro'
lis head.
A dispatch from Portland says Ore
on has undoubtedly gone Democrat
D. The Democrats claim a majority
f the Legislature-tweIve on Joint
allot.
The yield of wheat in Western Aus
ralia this year is sufficient only for
ONE consumption.
A dispatch from Melbourne states
nat all the Fenian prisoners confined ,
Western Australia have escaped in
le American whaleship Catalpa. !
n English war vessel has been sent
pursuit.
Pickens, indicted for killing his
N, at Columbus o., while the boy
as on his knees begging for pardon
r some offense, has been found gull r
: of manslaughter. :
American residents in Paris have f
arted subscription to raise funds 7
l. 81
Ourth of July, and for placing a Il
arble slab, with a commemorative h
scription, on the tomb of Lafayette. d
Go to Mexico, in the main building, ii
hen you visit the Centennial, and Il
g the 1000 pound lump of silver. It Il
worth $4,000. You are requested d.
It to pocket it. L
The blushing astonishment of our nc