The Columbus journal., 1878-12-18
Large lot of boxes and barrels
.haan at Marshall Smiths.

-See r. w. OlI iOE YOUR tOye'
He makes it a speciality to sell cheap.
{ The finest of candies
ever seen in this city for sale at
Doland & Smiths.
Literary" at brick school
house, district one, Friday evening.
Interesting exercises. All invited.
The School Sup't tells US that
the schools OF the county are now
all supplied with good teachers ex-
cept in one district where school
will not begin until the first of
January.
Columbus travelling men should
be careful when they are away from
home and in mixed company, not to
mistake q modern lady's hat for a
little kitten, and gently pat it saying
poor pussy, poor pussy"
M. Kramer returned from Chi
cago on Saturday. His new pur-
chases began to arrive last week.
He reports retail business in the
metropolis of the west as good, but
the wholesale as not lively.
Andrew Mathis tells rs that
he has not lost any cattle by the
prevalent disease. He turns them
out in the morning till ten o'clock,
shuts them. in the yard till three,
when they go out again for awhile.
We claim the right to say on
every proper occasion, and we de-
sire it reiterated so often that the
merest child will be able to repeat
it,-Nebraska has more fine days i'm
the year than any other State in the
Union.
Gustav Hellborn, it should be
remembered, is permanently located
OIL Neb., Ave one door north of the
Bank and is prepared to furnish any
thing in his line. Examine his goods,
give him your measure, and treat
yourself TO q good, honest suit of
clothes.
\ HORSES LosT.--From the latter
sail Stable, Columbus, Neb., Dec.
10, one gray roam mare, four years
old, and one sorrel mare, four years
old, crooked hind ltgs.-Full COM
peusaiiOn will be given 10 any one
giving the whereabouts of the ami
mails. &. L. Morse.
If you have not already done
so, 60 buy some good, warm flannel
and have undershirts made for
your little ones. A dollar invested
i'm this way may save doctors bills
and funeral expenses. Keep the
little ones comfortably warn. Deal
honestly and fairly by them.
OF course you are preparing to
spend n few dollars, more or less,
for the surprises of Santa Claus, and
YOU want to know the place where
you can find full supply of holiday
goods at lowest prices. Try +. w.
OFT, near the old post-office, one
door south of Brodteuhrer's jewelry
store.
Andrew Mathis sent car load
of barley 10 Chicago two weeks
since which graded No. ., and for
which he received in Chicago 81 cts.
per bushel and the net proceeds
here were ~ cents q bushel. Mr..
Mathis says the most he was offered
here for the same barley wvs 30 cts.
bushel.
j. L. North returned Saturday
from a trip TO Omaha. He says
there is considerable feeling there
against the man Burke, recently
sentenced TO twelve years i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary, for
murder that is declared to be as
cold-blooded as ever was committed
in the State.
Whenever a marriage notice or
any thing of importance is sent to
this Office for publication, il should
be accompanied by a responsible
name. We have known editors,
readers and others to be deceived,
misled and wronged, respectively,
by some incorrigible joker who
really meant no harm.
Ono of our weather prophets
gives it as his opinion that Nebraska
will never see any more of the old
fashioned, three-days' billiards" F"
in which the snow seemed as dry
and fine as flour, filling the air so
completely as to obstruct the view,
because, he says. the atmosphere is
now continually moist.
Mr.. c. T. Henderson, formerly
operator at Columbus, has been ap-
pointed superintendent of the coal
business at Schuyler. His first ex-
perience was an adventure with two
Bohemian women, who had appro-
pristed two sacks of company coal
to their personal use. Charley cap
tured them and compromised the
case for the company.
We stepped into Wiggins's work
shop the other day on business, and
found McIntire at work might and
main. He had five bushels or less
of nutmeg graters of his own manu-
facture, which he is sending all over
the country, and showed US another
new piece of machinery he has got
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