Nebraska advertiser., 1877-12-27
Miscellaneous Notes.

"enty-lOur CARLOADS OF silks aOC
teas have just arrived In New York
from San Francisco by rail. The oar
go, which was..valued at So, 100000 il
believed to be the largest contiennta
shipment ever made.
The Rev. J. J. Bloomer, pastor oi
st. Patrick's Catholic Church, ia Ell
mira, n. Y, has been committed tc
Jail for contempt of the Recorder;
Court in refusing to answer a question
put by the court in reference to a case
of alleged bigamy. The pastor stand:
on the ground of professional conf
dence, not church discipline.
Green Bay, Mo-, is deluged with
counterfeit silver quarters and halfdol
lars; gang of counterfeiters are sup.
posed to have taken up their quarter:
in that city.
The Senatorial contest In Ohio is be
coming lively. Gen. Morgan, Gen.
Ewing, Geo. II. Pendleton and II. 3
Payne are the prominent candidates.
"Bill" Allen may "rise up" just al
the proper moment. You can'talways
tell about William.
Senator Mcdonald (Dem.) of Indi.
ana has given notice that on January
18th next, he will offer in the United
States Senate a series of resolutions
in respect to the memory Of his late
colleague, the dead Senator Oliver P.
Morton.
A man belonging to Company A
Third Cavalry, now en- route to the
Black Hills, maliciously shot one OF
the command few miles south of
Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, one
night last week. Some time during
the night he was lynched by his
comrades.
Mr.. George Francis Train writes
from his hotel to the New York Sun,
that be has so far emancipated him
self from the trammels of appetite and
so far mastered hunger by the power
of psychology, that be can pass 100
hours without food or drink, and yet
suffer no inconvenience.
The Wisconsin Unitarian Confer
ence at Janesville last week adopted O
preamble and resolutions expressive
Of the sense of the Conference that
church property should not be exempt
from taxation, and providing for the
appointment of commission to pre-
pare memorial on the subjects Of
presentation to the Wisconsin legisla-
ture.
Now comes the Rev. Dewitt Tai
mage and calls il "rascally thieving
business to pay the national debt in
silver, when it is promised to pay in
gold" Where did the reverend d.
vine read gold? The bonds we pro-
pose to pay read payable sin coin."
The public are not fools or knaves,
and Dewitt would do well to let f.
nance alone.
Senator Conkling, of New York, is
one of the Presidents enemies. Conk-
ling was the friend of the New York
Custom House officials whom the
President removed. In the senate
last week, the Presidents nominees
W ere rejected, and Conkling of course,
triumphed. 1t is contemplated. it is
said, by some of the Republican Sen
ators to compel the President to go
over to the Democrats in order to have
any support at all.
It occurred to small boy of Fond
du Lao, Wis, that good way to get
rid OF an ownerless dog that prowled
about the house, was to give the ami
NAL a kerosene bath and then touch
a match to him. This brilliant con-
,eit produced a result equally brilliant
the entire peighborhood being light
I'd up by the flames of the barn under
which the dog took shelter in his bap-
tism of fire.
Senators Baysrd, Hill, and Dawes
were the debaters last week on the
,ide of the monometallists in opposi-
ion to the Matthews resolution, and
the customary solicitude for
he bopdholders and the customary
disregard of the interests of the peo-
pie at large. Mr.. Bayard has now de-
lined his position in reference to the
Presidential race of 1880, placing him
self squarely in antagonism to Mr..
who stands committed to
he support of the silver movement.
A remarkable variety is shown in
buttons for dresses and closks. These
ire no longer confined to silk and
,rocheted buttons, but consist of fam
,ifully colored pearl, bone, metal, COM
position buttons, tortoise shell, ,filigree
gilt or silver, round faced balls of jet,
wooden balls, inlaid pearl, engraved
pearl and shaded buttons, showing
avery hue in the dress, Two sizes are