The Red Cloud chief., 1879-05-29

Nebraska City bad a burglary last week
and excitement ran very high.
The North LOup tapn.ry was burglar
izeJ last week. Loss. $50.
S. +. Hills. Of West Branch, has put
out l,075 apple trees this spring.
Twenty-Five Nebraska editors went to
st Louis last week, aul report q pleas
ant trip.
Wheat at WILDER is IS cents a bushel;
corn Is cents and Pork 81 50 per hun
dred.
/ The Western part Of Nebraska has
had an abundance Of rain during the
past month.
-Four oar load. IF cattle we're shipped
recently from Fremont to Lsadville,
Col.
Corn never looked better in Dakota
county, this early 10 the spring. than at
pres ut.
More sod is being turned over in the
vicinity Of Hebron this spring than ever
lefurc.
The Republican Valley branch of the
Il. 4 NJ. railroad Wa. Completed t. Nap
cnee On the 10th.
G. +. Shedd 4 Co.. Of Edgar, shelled
aud slipped 4. OC0 6usLcd Of corn during
the past week.
The county clerk If Adams county
ssys 10 less than 81. 7S4, SIS can repre-
sent the wealth Of that county.
The ULion Pacific Railroad Company
has advanced the price on their lands
10 Hall county 500 yer acre.
Gus. Hoppe. Of Lincoln, paid $1,000,
all in $40 gold pieces, Ito the treasury
to pay for his liquor License.
A nan named Scott, Of Greeley coun-
ty, has set cut 27,OCO young forest trees
aud cuttings this spring on his farm.
A patty Of men started from Beaver
City last week to explore The Upper
Republics river, to be absent o month.
Five c,r-lcads Of Durham shoit horn
bulls passed through Ora d Island ,h
Monday last for western sock growers
The heavies: fleece at the State shear
ing on Thuradc' WAS taken from one Of
Z. j.. Myers' M-..nOS, and weighed 81
pounds.
Mr.. Johu =. Goelcrt, of Sidney, has
scared the contract for supplying Fort
Sidney with beef from July |, 1879, to
June 30, 1880.
A Earmer. out 10 Merrick couuiy while
plowiug with a sulky pillow on. day last
week, cut of the heads II fourteen
axes ILL II ~ JIi;l.
Tie West FONT pa per mills are said to
be turning cut o first class ar icie Of
straw paper. They expect to seOn com
mence the manufacture Of news and
writing paper.
A destructive hail storm struck Ere.
mont. Monday night.
Several ,loussrd trees Lave been set
oct in Columbus this spring.
Seed grain is very scarce in Howard
county. shor, sighted farmers having sold
all their last years crop.
Two hundred and Eve applications for
the leasc Of Saliug lands we're granted
last week by the Board Of Public Lads
and Buildings, there being about 300
applicants.
FROM nearly every county in the State
our exchanges invariably give reports of
the indications Of immense crops in small
grain this season-far greater than ever
before.
1t is believed that there is enough
good, durable stone 10 Howard county
suitable for building purposes for the
erection IF o dwelling aud out buildings
on every quarter sec;ioa 10 the cocuty.
Cass county sent two convicts to the
~penitentiary Tuesaay-Marquioe Fl zger-
aid and NJ. Mcuouald. the former for
ten years for m~anslaagher and the latter
for eighteen months for stabbi:g.
A bond of s25, 600 was deposited in
the First National Bank of Liccold last
week, IS security for the ful6llment Of
the contract of the A. & N. railroad. in
case the city votes the bonds for the ex-
tension Of the road.
D. II. Ainsxorth, civil engineer for
the B. & NJ. company is recoonoiterinG
to the west and northwest Of Bloc
Springs. Undoubtedly be is looking for
. pass to the Little Blue, aud thence to
the Republican Valley.
A railway is being extended up the
Ekhorn to It's immediate objective point
1t Battle Creek. thence. soon after to
another objective point at the terminus
of the Great Northwest Cattle DIVE st
Oakdals in Antelope county.
The Governors Office is just nov b.
ing besieged with letters from al parts
of tho State, and from llinois, asking
for the communication Of the death pen
sIty to imprisonment fer life. Ia the
McE.voy case. The letters from niaois,
the old home Of the condemned bog.
speak Of him in the highest terms.