Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1881-08-18
NEBRASKA ADVERTISER
MISCELLANEOUS.


Alice still lives.
The wooden mills at Middle Amana
Iowa, burned 9th inst.
A telegram from Springfield, H.
says: mo rain has fallen here for %
days. In Lawrence, liichland, Clay,
Wayne, Edwards, Wabash, Hamilton
and White counties, H., have had no
rain for three months. The governor
is being appealed to for aid from the
Southern part of the state, ~ tn" crops
have persisted by drOuth, and old crops
are used up.
The American Bible Society has pro
cured a stop cylinder press, upon which
an entire copy Of the Bible can be-
printed every minute.
\ missionary native worker near
GaboOn, Africa was recently caught
and eaten by cannibals.
"Dashes of water in the sincere milk
of the world" is the way one character.
ICES some Of the italicized words in the
old version.
A produce dealer i'm Tennessee wrote
upon an egg: "Will the Young lady iuI
whose hands this egg may fan
correspond with WIN. Jones, Clay coun-
ty, Tenn" \ pretty young lady in
New York got the egg, wrote to Mr. j..
got an answer, exchanged photos, met,
were mutually pleased, ana married.
That was no bad egg was it?
Prohibition was badly beaten in
North Carolina, every county rs far as
heard from voting against it.
4 Mrs. Bmce and child, of Illinois,
and Miss Anna Skull were recently
drowned in the Ohio river near Lous- |
vile, 10y the sinking of a skil
VIM. Watts, Marshal Of Tamaroa,
ILL.,, was Killed by jim Vaughn. The
latter was drunk and stabbed the mar !
shall when he tried to arrest him.
The prosperity of the Northwest was
all explained in single sentence the
other day by a farmer who said: we
raise all We eat, and more, too
Sitting Bull has good idea of the
nicetieS and proprieties. He refused |
to,hale hands with an Indian agent.
If Eve had possessed patent bangs, |
and false hair. aud Il dozen modern |
dresses, she would have been busy. |
and have had no time to bother with
the serpent.
West Point, Neb, has match
factory capable of turning ont 1,4lo,-
900 matches u day, that is 1900 boxes.
\ double tragedy was enacted in
Ccrnishyillc, Ky. Dan Huffman and
Thomas Brown, two young men of the
place. met i'm Il whisky saloon and an
old feud was revived between the
parties when Brown fred, killing |
luffuan instantly. One of IIuiTman's
friends then fired upon Brown from
the rear. shooting him through the
head, killing him instantly
George and Dana Bigelow, brothers,
OF Holt county, Neb., were smOthercd
TO death last week 10y the caVing in OF |
we'll they were digging.
The Nebraska State dog show will be
held at Norfolk, August 3Oth.
The Grand Island Democrat has
passed in its checks kicked the
bucket and died.
\ boy named Melburn, near POrters- |
Vile, Ind, shot and killed his cousin |
John McCarty in IA tit ofmger. Their |
ages We're II and IA years.
In the recently discovered conspiracy !
at st. Petersburg sixty persons, some OF
them of high rank. are implicated. !
The detection of this plot is said to be
the reason for the sudden journey Of
the Car and family to Moscow.
YOUNGSTOWN, O., Aug. 10, -'Phe
body of Jack MCGraw, well known in
police circles, was found sitting i'm "A
chair in his house, bloatcd and decom-
posed. He was alone in the house. and
ii il supposed he died Monday of heart
disease, brought on 10y hard drinking.
Leonard Robertson. well-to-do
farmer near Madison, Ind, arrayed
himself in his wife'S clothes and sun
bonnet and hung himself, No cause is
known for the singular act. He was
sane yesterday and had been all his
life.
Conkling retireS for the present. He
has done the State grand service i'm
past wears, and has largely aided in
helping the Republican party in mo-
ments Of danger, and the emergency
may again arise in New York when it
will again be necessary to call ON him
TO come to the rescue, When Morton
took his coat off to stump the State of
Indiana the Democracy was powerleSs
against him. 80 it has been in New
York State, and Conklmg has ALWAYS
been the man who was relied On in a
great political crisis. Even in the
hours of his defeat his enemies cannot
afford to suecr at him. for they know
not how soon I've may be needed ia
come to the front again. Men of his
exceptional ability ana great intellect
ual power are not easily kept down.
In the midst Of all the corruption that
centered around Congress during the