Nebraska advertiser., 1878-05-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


&C, III.
The clerk of Winnebago county,
ILL.,, one day last week paid out $3.50
bounty on wolf scalps.
Farmers of Wisconsin are blowing
up their hops, which causes great con-
sternation amongst the beer guzzlers.
The authorities of Tennessee report
that the State has received one thous-
and and seven settlers from the North
during the past ten months.
The Cincinnati Enquirer pretends
to have discovered 5000 communists
in that city organized into military
companies and drilling with arms.
Anarchy reigns I'm the newly an
nexed districts of Montenegro. AL
banians, Christians and Moslems re-
fuse submission to the prince of Mon-
tenegro.
s. r. Mason, the nominee Of the
National party in Pennsylvania, for
Governor, is a Democrat, and Is spo-
ken of as one of the most successful
lawyers in the State.
"Five hundred saloon passengers
sailed for Europe to-day" the New
York papers recently announced. at
this rate the saloon business must in
evItably suffer this summer in the
United States.
Lime has been used for apple orch
ards with great benefit, at the rate of
twenty bushels per acre. One who
has tried it for many years deems 1t
very beneficial, as his trees have been
very productive.
Gen. Ben. f. Butler has been men,
toned as the National, or Greenback,
candidate for Governor in Massachus-
etts, and the Springfield Republican
says the notion that he will enter the
field as such candidate is growing.
The New York Board of Health
publishes q table which shows that
the annual average death rate per
thousand for the decade 1877, in New
York, is 2S7l; in Brooklyn, 1857; in
Boston, 24.94 and in Chicago, $3.50.
Soft maple growing wild In a dense
forest, on damp soil, yield sap con-
tanning very little sugar. Trees ofthe
same variety cultivated on nsunny expo
sure and in dry soil will produce
nearly as much sugar as the rock ma.
pie.
Two hundred horses per week are
being purchased In Clinton, Essex,
and st Lawrence counties, n. Y. and
In the western portion of Vermont, by
agents of the English government
The animals are selected for cavalry
purposes, and sent to New York and
Philadelphia for shipment.
Mrs. Gilmer, whose husband was
couciliated full of shot holes at the
time that the Chisolm family was
massacred by the Democrats In Kem-
per county, Mississippi, has been CIV
en- a place in the war department.
She was in utter destitution, and liv-
ing on the charity of neightors.
A company with q capital stock of
So. .O00, 900 has been organized in Cali
fornia for the purpose of making wa
termelon sugar and oil, claiming that
ten per cent. of sugar can be obtained |
from the juice, and twenty-five per
cent. of OF from the seed, suitable for
table use, besides extracting alcohol
from the rind and pulp.
Jim Younger, Of The notorious
Younger brothers. the bandits, is
slowly dying in the penitentiary of
The cause of his proba-
bic death is the wound In his mouth,
which destroyed his upper left jaw
and nearly all of the antrum. The
bullet Is still imbedded in his mouth,
and pieces of bone are constantly
out.
A colony of Swedes has purchased
/ large tract of land in the Blue Noun
aims, Pa, extending from the Della
ware Water Gap down to the Wind
Jap, on which they propose to settle
md devote their attention to raising
md grazing goats. and from goats
milk they intend to manufacture
The country is partic-
llarly favorable for the purpose.
The Indianapolis Journal is satis-
led that the approaching Republican
in Indiana will be one of
he largest and most enthusiastic of
ecent years, and that if no mistakes ,
re made 1t will be the opening of a
brilliant and successful campaign.-
The Journal wants the platform this
'ear to be one of p.inciples-positive,
lear cut, aggressive, and progressive.
The statement was made some
weeks ago that Postmaster Gen. Key
lad declared that he worked for Til !.
en and believed him honestly elect
d, and that Hayes was put into Office i.
y fraud. Mr.. Key notices these re-
'orts to say that he never made any
uch declarations; that he did not
york for Tilden, and that he believes
he electoral commission settled the o
1lestion of the Presidenfis title iustly =