Nebraska advertiser., 1878-03-21
Items Of Interest.


The friends of Packard are still urg-
ing him for the New Orleans Collect
orship, and now with prospects of sue
cess.
The damage to crops and live stock
by the overflow of the Sacramento
river, in California, Ia estimated at
about 81 600. 900.
The seduction case OF Ostherout vs..
Carlisle at Sycamore. ILL.,, has result
ed in verdict by the jury of one cent
for plaintiff.
Ann Arbor, Mich, horses are af-
flicted with a disease similar to the
epizootic. One of it's symptoms is
that the animals refuse to drink, or at
best can drink only with great diff
Guilty.
a Berlin dispatch states that some
officials of the Prussian Ministry of
Finance 60 to Washington to study
the tobacco taxation system Of the
United States.
A colony. to be entirely composed
of Spiritualists, gathered from all over
the Union. will buy land in Lincoln
Territory and engage in agricul-
tural pursuits.
Judge Martin, of Brown County.
Wisconsin, decided recently that tax
payers are incompetent a d ineligible
to act as iurorsin suit brough against
the city for damages.
A dispatch from Trieste says the
Austrian steamer Sphinx, from Ca
val,o, with 2. 800 Circassians on board,
caught fire and went ashore near Cape
Ella. Five hundred lives were lost.
The situation in Italy is easily des-
cribed. King Humbert will cling to
the policy OF Victor Emmanuel, and
Pope Leo will make few concessions,
or none at all if his advisers are TO
shape his policy.
A report comes from Constantine
pie that Suleimsn Pasha. who, at the
time Of the signing of the armistiee,
was communicative chief of the Turk
ish armies, has been drowned as a
punishment for his part in a cOnspir-
acy to dethrone tbs Sultan.
Gen. Crook says no Immediate
trouble need be feared from Sitting
Bull, unless the buffalo range south,
which is hardly probable, as they
have not done so of late years. No
expedition against the hostile Sioux is
now contemplated.
The collapse of the insurgent strug- |
gle in Cuba is APPARENTLY an assured
fact. One by one the insurrectionary |
bands have accepted the offer of am-
nesty held out by Gen. Campos, and
surrendered to the Spanish military
commanders.
Secretary of State Evarts is famous
for raising large cattle. He has just
sold from his Windsor, VT. farm
yokes of oxen that weighed $50 and
4.85l pounds, and two cows that
weighed 400 pounds each.
The Pennsylvania House of Repre-
sentatives has adopted a resolution
asking Congress to give one million
dollars to the Centennial Exhibition
authorities as the governments share
of the expense Of the exhibition.
There's "cheek" for you in abund-
ance!
Cardinal McCloskey, of New York,
in presenting his homage to the new
Pope, at the Vatican, Monday, said
that he had no reason to deplore the
lateness of his arrival in Rome as the
conclave had made SO excellent a
choice. The Cardinal has kissed the
blarney stone" evidently.
Looking about for other worlds to
DR.. Mary Walker has plan
ned campaign against the small
boys of Washington. Whenever she
walks the streets of that city the small
boys are in the habit of asking her to
pull down her vest, and occasionally
go so far as to advise her to take off
her pants.
The Grand Lodge of Free Masons
Of England. Lord Carnarvon presid- 7
ing, has unanimously passed resolu-
ions refusing to recognize as Free 7
Mason any person initiated i'm lodge
where belief in God is denied or ig-
lored. This refers to the action of
he Grand Orient of France which re-
'ently eliminated the article express !
ng belief in God from its ritual.
The President has decided to ap-
paint Marshall H. Twitchell, of Lou
siana. U. S. Consul at Kingston, Can
Ida. Twitcbell is a standing evidence
# the bitterness of political partisan
hip recently. if not now, existing in
he Creole State, having been so
in the Coushatta affair as to
'e necessiated to pass the remainder
# his life without arms.
The numerous surveys of the terri
cries are likely to be investigated. A
esolution has been adopted calling!
pom the secretaries of war and the
Interior for investigations as to the ex-
ense of these surveys for the past ten
ears. The answere will show that
Many favorites of congressman OBJ
aimed pleasant places during the sum- 4
Ter on these exploring trips.
The Utah Legislature closed its ses-
on Saturday noon. The new cleo -;
on law, passed and signed by the pr
overnor, provides for registration and 81
secret ballot, one OF the judges of
lie election to be from the minority 4
arty (Gentiles). the judges to provide 4