Nebraska advertiser., 1877-11-29
Miscellaneous Notes.

The Secretary or the treasury mas
Issued circular letter of instructions
to collectors of customs, directing, in
view OF the fact that the cattle disease
exists in various parts Of Europe.
that no hides shall be admitted in
ports of United States from Europe,
unless accompanied by counsular GER
tificates declaring they are not infest-
ed.
a Rome (Italy) telegram of the 9Th
says the Pope will issue his letters re-
establishing the Catholic hierarchy
in Scotland, on Christmas Day.
The Eldorado (Kan.) Press tells OF
castor bean plant which is 13 feet
high and branches like an elm tree.
A Mr.. Mcintyre. of Jasper town
ship, Adams county Iowa. while out
on the prairie recently, was chased
home by a wolf, and he had barely
reached his house when pack of half
q dozen or more hungry animals sur
rounded it and set up their howling.
bringing to the minds ofthe occupants
the many weird wolf stories of the
early settlements.
Mr.. NJ. Babcock, of st. Johns, Mich, g,
is another of those chaps who have
$500 to put up on Tom Payne's not be-
ing drunkard and a grossly immor-
al person.
Kokomo, Ind, has a musical prodi
gy-a little girl ten years of age. She
reads difficult music rapidly and cor
rectly, and plays well on the violin.
She led the orchestra in the opera
house for the last performance there.
Rat hunts are all the rage in Greene
County, Ohio. and the people want
the legislature to authorize the pay
ment of 10 cents for each rat slaugh-
tered.
Canada barley raisers report the bar
ley crop good, but the color of the
grain is dark. Almost all their eX-
port of barley and rye is to the United
States, and they fear that the temper
ance movement here will depress
Canadian agricultural interests, as
their customers are brewers.
Hog cholera is raging to frightful
extent in Stephenson county, Ill.
Hundreds of hogs are dying every
day. 1t has also made its appearance
in FreepOrt.
Timothy hay is now being carried
by rail to Boston from stations forty
miles west of Chicago. The freight is
$50 car load, and shippers are ordi-
aarily able to stow nine tons of press
cd hay in car.
Sixty thousand pound of dried fruit
have been Shipped this season from
Whitesburg Tenn.
In the county round about Bloom
field, Ind, hog cholera has prevailed
to such an extent that in many in
stances rarmers nave lost tnerr entIre
droves of fat, valuable hogs.
The State Agricultural and Mechan-
ical College at Bryan, Tex, opened
with two hundred and twenty-five
students.
Sumpter county, Fla will probab-
ly ship one and a half million oranges
the present year.
Welcome rains have substantially
ended the famine in India. after a
loss of life estimated at 750, ,000-an
immense sacrifice.
A wildcat got into the house of a
farmer in Strsfford, n. H, one night
last week, and attacked him in his
bed, but be got hold of stick of wood
and after long fight killed the ami
NAL, being helped by his dog.
w. w. woodward, of Morriston,
Shelby county, Indiana, raises snow
ball potatoes. forty-six of which fill
bushel aud weigh sixty-six pounds.
The japanese have n flourishing ag-
ricultural college which has been in
successful operation for over a year.