Nebraska advertiser., 1880-07-15
STATE MATTERS.

- The Governor OF Nebraska offers
! $500 reward for the capture Of an
Italian named GOzOlO who recently
murdered an Italian, at Omaha, named
Zerga. The friends of the latter offer
$500 in addition to the reward offered
by the State. making $500.
- State Fair begins at Omaha Sept
2Oth and will continue to 25th.
- Tecumseh Chieftdin: The Brown
vile ADVERTISER in commenting on
the late murder in this county says
But what is all this going TO cost
Johnson county" That is question
for tax payers to solve. No one at
present will attempt to estimate it..
1t will probably amount to as much
as the four saloon-license would ag-
gregate in several years.
Peru Herald: Peru is one of the
oldest towns in this state and her peO-
pie can boast that a case Of murder,
manslaughter or suicide has never Oc-
CURED here, and litigation of any kind
is very rare. ..... Mr.. Charles Davis
met with sad accident last Sunday
| He and his brother-in-law. Mr.. ThOmp-
son were cutting into a bee tree, and
Thompson being blinded by smoke
struck Davis on the arm with an AK
cutting off a portion of the lower end
of the upper bone cutting about one
third through the elbow joint. He
may lose the joint.
- The Republicans of the State are
organizing and going to work for big
majority. That is right. Let the
proper work be done and $4,000 ma
jOrity will be the result.
The fall term of the State Normal
School, Peru, will open September 1st.
See the card of the of the Principal in
another column.
The Lincoln Sportsmen'S Club offers
a reward for the arrest of persons VIC
lating the game law.
Joe. OPeIt, of the Arlington
House, Lincoln has purchased over 800
yards of Brussels carpet for the floor
of his new dining hall. 1t will keep
EN- busy to keep up with Joe in the
hotel business.
A hailstOrm cut swath about
mile wide through Pswnee county last
week, running the corn and al vegeta-
ton III its track.
A Furnas county paper of June
3Oth says farmers are now busy plant
ing corn" That sounds funny here,
where cornstalks stand ten feet high,
tosseled and silking.
We haven't heard a Democrat
claiming Grant for Hancock for sew
eral days past. Probably they have
heard something drop" from the old
General.
A man named \. T. Mastin was
recently arrested at Lincoln charged |
with stealing a shotgun, and the cook |
(anOther mans wife) of the TuttIe |
House of which he was clerk.
-AnagriculturaI implement factory |
has been started at the Lincoln pen
itentiary.
Calhoun, founder of the Bloom
ingtOn ArgIs and eX-DemOcratic can
didate for Congress, is now doing up /
locals for the State Journal, and does
it well.
We believe there is not another |
penitentiary in the United States /
where the cOnyicts are treated as we'll |.
as they are at the penitentiary at Lin
coin. The following III the State |
Journal, written by a convict, will !
give an idea of the treatment of the |
prisoners generally, and is interesting
in showing how they celebrated the |
Fourth and the curious mixed talent |
possessed amongst them:
PENITENTIARY, July 4. 1880.
The National Holiday has been kept |
at the penitentiary as well as existing |
circumstances would permit, Boss !
Stout and Mr.. NObes. as usual. doing
ali they could 10 satisfy the wants and |
add to the comforts of the men under |
their charge. Shortly before 10 a. m,
the cOnvicts were mustered in the |
chapel, and as none of the Lincoln or |
atOrS had rendered their services for !
the day they had to depend on the /
prison choir for entertainments, and 1
it showed itself worthy of their conf |
dence, and l will make bold to assert |
that no audience in Nebraska listened I
TO performers representing as many /
parts of the globe as did the audience !
gathered in the prison chapel on that |
dav. First came Williams of New
York. with a song. "The Wild Irish |
Bow" then Harris, Of Nova Scotia, |
read "Over the Hills TO the POOrhOuse; :"
then Flores of Old Mexico. with an
impTOmptu stump speech which eX-
cited much merriment, and was very
creditably delivered. Then Marback
from Bavaria sung "In the Dell,
which was well received. Next Mas
sey from Australia recited the "COn-
victS Dream which took very well,
followed by Kerr from Sweden, sing
ing annie Laurie assisted by Miller
from Pennsylvania. Then came Me
Lean from Paddy's Land, with "Sher-
idan's Ride" both of which were ap-
plauded TO the echo. Now beat that if
you can. for talent from afar. The
writer hesitates as he pens these lines.
and wonders if any who may read
them will begrudge these unfortunate
men their semi-annual laugh or round
of applause. If there are any such he
does not wish to lessen his respect for
his fellow men by becoming acqUaint-
ed with them. The tone of the gov
ernment of this prison as it now exists
under Mr.. NObes, on holidays or work
DAYS is to inculcate self-respect, and