The Red Cloud chief., 1880-01-22
TIL + CHIEF.
LOCAL MATTERS.

An unusual amonnt Of Sickness j
this c3nnty this winter.
Capt. CARRIER was very sick last Sun
day night.
The women ge: drunk in Riverton
so says the Ea0h.
Two ocfins was brought and taler
cur Of Red Cloud last Sunday.
Last Saturday was a lovely day and
lots Of farmers were in town.
A book agent has appeared who ha,
a cory CT CHANGER in his large libra
~.
Burr Tanners dogs now extend
from the Boys Home TO CARRIERS corr
criLs.
Uncle Jack" Renecker wants TO sci
or rent his farm on the south side Of Tie
river.
Fine weather for January. Robbie
Potter has been swimming twice oil
ready.
The Editor borrowed 0 pair cf two
dollar boots, erased his hair and started
for Lincoln.
%. g. Murray has sold the Fsirfsld
Neps to Bishop Perkins WHO will cen
duct it in the future.
The 3. & NJ. Co. have purchased
land at Hastings and will =
the erection of extensive machine sbops
thereon.
Will Rcilcy returned from Iowa last
Thursday with a brand new wife. W.
Wish him success 10 life aud a blis-rul
matrimonial existence.
We was just beginning to enjoy life
when Wilcox moved With his brass horn
INFO the Office adj IiDiRg ours, and now
life seems q barren waste.
"A destructive prairie fire ragged inst
across the line in Kansas on Thursday OF
last week. A numLer OF people hire r..
ported TO lave lost considerable prvrerly
by the fire.
We have been TO Lincoln attending
the annual meeting of the Nebraska Ed
torlsl Association, this week, and are a
little behind haEd with the paper in
consequence.
We will give a pocketfdll of peanuts
and lead down with our choicest bless.
1ngs, any boy who will gain possession OF
and bury forever out of sight and hear
ing, that internal horn.
IF some Of the dwellers in the east
ern states could have spent last Sunday
Ia lied Cloud they would have been sur
pri,ed at the spring-Gke loveliness of
some Of our winter days.
We understand that tie County
Board concluded to accept of some ones
proposition to allow the Town Board 10
donate the city Jail to the county. We
would Ike to buy it for a corn crib.
ED. CHIEF-Tbere will he a meeting
OF the Ex Soldiers OF Webster and ad
joining counties in Kansas aud Neb. on
Saturday jan. 3Ist, at one o'clock p. NJ
sharp. II. b. FULToN Pres.
There has been an unusual amount
OF sickness in this valley this winter, and
the prairie flowers of early spring will
bloom over more newly made graves
than at any previous time in the history
Of this country.
last Tuesday two women created
considerable excitement, 10 town, over a
board. bill collection matter. Ii drew a
larger crowd than a dog fight, and an
resred fully as interesting. The Sheriff
and Constable took TO tie woods.
From Mr.. z. p. Kellogg of Amite
Louisiana. who is a subscriber to the
CHIEF. We have received copies of the
Amite City Independent. oae of which
gives a lengthy account of the lynel,inc
of six men who Were 10 Jail charged with
the crime Of murder.
We learn that the people Batin have
been induleing in a wholesale revival of
religion at the Humlnel school house. A
number ofthe hard cases. have been
brought into the fold" while a multi
tude Of tie faithful have had their
spiritual strength" renewed.
We learn Of the death Of Mrs. Dun
can Laverty eff Elan Cresk, last Satur-
day. Mrs. Laveny was one of the
pioneer women of this county having
been the first women settled on Elm
Greek, 10 the summer of 1871. Herr
death is q sad blow to the aged hus-
band.
We have received of Mr.. G., A,
Brown, the furniture dealer, one of those
indestructable, back action, seli-adjust-
ing patient rocking chairs, and after Civ
ing it a fair trial fell compelled to say
that it is the best thing in the shape of
chair. especial,y for q l.zv man that hoe