Nebraska advertiser., 1880-06-17
SHERIDAN ITEMS.
Who is Arthnr0

Inc mouse OF Eli Wood was struck
by lightning one night last week. If
there had been two more rods on the
house it might not have been struck,
and if there had been no rod on the
house it might have been destroyed by
lightning long ago. --.
More improvements being made
in the vicinity of Sheridan this season
than in any previous year.
j. R. Giel is building an addition
to his house.
= Again comes the cry of swindlers
abroad in the land. Look out what
you sign. Isn't it about time that our
courts ignore innocent purchasers" or
that We have a law to that effect? Too
many honest men have been swindled
out of their hard earnings, and ''innO-
cent purchaser" has sometimes only got
what justly belonged to him, but more
often has he made a good investment.
Let Mr.. Swindler come around collect
ing the notes and papers that he has
fraudulently obtained, and-well, we
smile at the consequences.
And now comes the report that a
man has become insane from reading
the lectures of Robt. G. Ingersoll, and
the clergy of course are fastening to
warn people of the danger of such
reading, yet these Reverends do not
mention the fact that over a dozen peo-
pie went crazy on the subject of relig-
ion in the city of Chicago during the
reign of the great revivalist, Moody.
1t is strange how bitter men will de-
nOunce what they have never read and
declare that such book is lie from
beginning to end, and then wind up
with the assertion that they did not
read one page of the miserable trash un-
til they dashed it aside. Could we
place the writings of Ingersoll, Under
wood, Hume, and Paine, and others in
the hands of every reader in the land,
we would hasten to do so, believing
that men and women and society gener-
ally would be better by the deed.
[These items, intended for last week
issue, came to hand too late.
Mrs. j. b Piper is suffering with
fever and ague.
- Mr.. SOrrels of Arkansas is visit
ing at the home of his brother-in-law,
W. T. Reed. He thinks of staying in
Nebraska.
- There was some wind in Sheridan
last. The question has been
asked, "Why is it that there is so
much wind this year?" To persons
with the science of astron-
omy it is very easily explained. The
Perryhulion coming in juXtOpOSition |
and direct antagonism with the fluent |
orbs of the solar system, causes the ST. |
derial waves to mount every difficulty |
in astronomical calculations, and the
wind blows.
= AS to how things will meander
away, ask Herb. Wilson. We agree
with Herb, that the man that will
steal a lariat rope is thief.
= Mrs. Maddy, of Iowa, who has
been visiting her daughter, Mrs. DR..
BOal, returns home to-day.
- James Brown is busy putting up
chimneys that were blown down during |
the storm of Saturday.
= Mr.. Schneider, who tarried in
Sheridan during the storm, lost several
articles out of his wagon. Where the
burr blew to seemed apparent the next
day.
Messrs. John and George Harmon
are improving a piece of land eight
miles west of Sheridan.
w. Dundas & Bro. have on hand
several Weir cultivators that they
choose to sell on long time rather than
to hold them for another year.
= Rev. Reed of Peru preached in
the NJ. E. Church, last Sunday, and we
to some more of that old story
that the man whose heart was not fill
ed with the love of God, was only actu-
ated to noble deeds of selfish motives.