Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1880-12-23

fare may be immensely -elished by Mr..
Howe's enemies, bat It only inteEsities
the determination of his friends to
stand b. HIN. They understand well,
or many OF them do that the Globes
hated for Howe is upon personal
gcounds only.
A Catholic church is being erected
at Glencoe.
- 1t is said that one builder in Lin
coin has contracted to build eleven
three-story brick business buildings
next season.
- The Sutton Globe has played out.
Sheriff Sullivan, of Seward county,
came down yesterday with horse
thief named Keefer, who is sentenced
to the penitentiary for three years.
State Journal.
- Nebraska City Press: Church
Howe will vote for G. III. Van Wyck,
for senator, if rumOr is correct. If
Church is monopoly striker why does
he vote for an anti-mOnOpOly candidate
for SENATOR viii the Globe answer?
- Some, ne ago call was issued
fo- convention of Nebsaskas county
Treasures and Gle KS, to be held at
Columbus, on the 18th inst Pursuant
to the cal a large number of those Of
ficials met at the t. he and place desig-
mated. and took such steps, it is hoped,
as will rebound to the benefit of the
taxpayers of the State. Among other
business transacted by the convention,
the following was adopted:
WHEREAS, Experience has demon
strated the fact that serious defects
mar the workings of our most impOr-
tant laws, more particularly the reYe-
nue. and road laws, to such an extent
that they are almost impracticable of
application to the purposes for which
they are framed; and,
WHEREAS, 1t is thought that none
are better qualified to point out such
defects or omissions than the officers
who are cha ged with the execution of
these laws; therefore,
ReSolced, That this convention of
clerks and treasurers adopted such
measures as may secure such reforms
Or additional legislation as will give to
the taxpayers of the state the safest
and best laws which the wisdom born
OF experience may dictate.
- State Journal: Hon. T. J. Ma
jors is stopping in Lincoln, on his way
home from visit to Omaha. Col. Ma
jors' prospect for admission as Ne
braska's contingent Congressman next
March, are considered pretty good by
his friends at Washington.
In conversation yesterday morn
ing with Mr.. Richie, one of the big
sheep raisers of this state, we learned
that from his flock of 900 sheep, he
clipped about $4,000 pounds of wool.
He further informed us that lie took
several fleeces of twenty pounds each,
from yearling ews, and as high as
twenty-th-ee and four pounds from
older animals This extraordinary CHIP
may seem like fish story to some OF
our eastern sheep raisers. but those
who know Mr.. Richie will vouch for
the correctness of his statement
State Journal.
Henry Parish, engaged in that
terrible drunken riot in Tecnmseh last
spring. in which a man was killed, had
his trial last week, and was sentenced
to the penitentiary for a term of 10
years. The trial of several others en-
gagged in the affair was continued to the
spring term of court. The cost of those
trials, purely the offspring Of saloons,
will make an interesting item, when
they are all over with.
people and press of this State
are almost a unit in favor of Senator
Paddock being his own successor
Grand Island Times.
Now, II that is so, it ought to settle
the question, of which we had begun to
have some serious doubts.
- The Lincoln Globe of the 18th has
four or five articles-a large share of its
editorial space-deFoted to the Hon.