Nebraska advertiser., 1878-03-28
Items of Interest.

the highest salary among Governors,
50 900.
What is called 1.-The Honest Money
League" was organized in Chicago
last week. 1t is composed of hard
money advocates.
Wisconsin has over 10000, 600 acres
of farming lands which have never
yet felc the plow.
The City of Chicago has obtained
judgment for half million of dollars
against the bOndsmen of David a
Gage, a defaulting ex-Treasurer.
There are $50 stamps at present in
operation in the Black Hills. One
hundred and fifty are nearly ready to
begin to work.
Two human skeletons, sitting, were
found about three feet below the sur
face of the ground, north of Cham
paign, H., a few days ago. Supposed
to have been Indians.
Officers of the British Royal engi-
neers have been ordered to provide
themselves with field equipments and
be ready for immediate service.
A Presbyterian church containing
twenty-seven members has been or
ganized among ye gentle savages of
the Sioux persuasion at Yankton, Da-
kota. Presbyterian doctrine, of the
strongest concoction. is what the Sioux
need.
The locomotives. shipped from Phil
adelphia to Russia are covered with
Russia sheet iron made in Philadel-
phia. a few years ago Russia" iron
was manufactured only in Russia.
1t is reported at the secret-service
bureau that leading counterfeiters are
making their arrangements so that
they will be able to supply fac SINH
les of the silver dollar within q few
days after Philadelphia mint begins
operations.
Mr.. T. w. Williamson Of McCon-
nellsville, Ohio, while tor ing for oil,
struck vein of gas at depth of
500 feet. lie has fttedipipes to it,and
heats his house, does his cooking, and
runs a pump at another we'll with the
gas
The Cincinnati Gazette in review
of the crop prospects of southern Ohio,
Indiana, and northern Kentucky,
thinks the prospects for large crop
of wheat is exceedingly good. The
average sOwn last fall is larger than
ever known. Not one report is unfa
vorable, though from a few points
there are apprehensions of a rank
growth.
In the United States senate, Mr..
from the Judiciary commit
tee, reported adversely upon the
house bill admitting women to prac
tioe law in the supreme court or 9TH
er United States courts, because it is
now with those courts
to decide who shall practice before
them, and this bill would compel the
courts to admit women when it would
not admit men to that privilege.
That ends that matter.
There are some signs of harmony
in Washington between the President
and the Republican mem bers of Con-
gress, which We hope will not be dis
sipated.
A girl In Milwaukee has the small
poX for the second time in three |
The case is deemed remark
able.
The bill repeating the railroad tar
IF law has passed both houses of the
Iowa Legislature. This action can
hardly do otherwise than stimulate
railway enterprise, and, If accepted by
he railroads in the proper spirit, may
prove prolific of good.
The Russian people are very much
against England, and the
English people are very much exas-
1erated against Russia. The London
,rs stone the houses of all peace ad-
and the Russian peasants re-
use to drive sledges in which English
men travel. This is condition of
ceiling in which people seek an ex-
use for war.
The Springfield Mass Repu5lianc
the decision of the Louis
ana Supreme court in the Anderson
ase "a decided victory for the men,
'ers of the Returning Board, damp
r to partisan prosecution. in Loulsi-
pa, and a sharp rebuke to Judge
Whitaker aud the other Democrats s
7ho hurried General Anderson's case 1
hrough to conviction"
Burlington Hu,0k Eye: "In its
reat battle for freedom" says Robert
combs, 1.-The South lost all but hon. ,
r." Since which dismal time, the '
outh has carried all its baggage, in
luding salvage, in a collar box.
Referring to the remarks about the ]
ecision of the Louisiana Supreme