The Columbus journal., 1881-11-16

uidT play dt optTd hOusc Iuceudy,
Nov. 22d. This Company carry a
pack of trained bloodhounds and the
trick donkey, "Tony," which appear
at every performance. Popular pri-
ces are maintained.
Would il not be well for farm
ers, in the prospect of probable
scarcity OF cattle feed, to carefully
husband all their straw, which may
be worth many dollars to them by
the way of feeding their cattle, as it
has been claimed by those who have
experience that cattle will survive a
long time on well saved straw, and
do better some times than on COM
mon hay.
We notice that Chas. E. Fields
Of Neigh has been successful in a
contest with Il. II. Trowbridge, for
the Office of justice of the peace, by
vote of llG to As. Mr.. Trowbridge
was one of the Representatives to
the legislature of 79, who voted for
the capitol appropriation contrary
to the wish Of his constituents. Mr..
Fields was, for a short time. several
years since, a typo i'm this office.
H. J. and Sarah Hudson were
surprised Wednesday evening last
by large collection of their friends
aud relatives to celebrate the thirty
seventh anniversary of their mar
riage. Many valuable and beautiful
presents were presented to the
couple on the occasion. The friends
of Mr.. and Mrs. Hudson will accept
the thanks of the printer for splen-
did specimens of cake furnished
this Office.
The Kearney Western Neao Era
says that Mr., Van Alstein of Lin
coin has placed himself on record as
the champion goose shooter of the
State, having recently gone into
Lincoln with 1913 birds. Before he
can claim the championship, how
ever, the time occupied i'm killing
the birds must be known. Colum-
bus can trot out man who bagged
sixty-five geese ~ the result of about
one-half days shooting.
The Western Historical Com
pany of Chicago, intend soon to pub
iish history of Nebraska, which
will contain about forty views of
towns i'm the state, sketched by F.
NJ. Gilbert for the work. Mr.. Gil
bert stated that he would leave at
the Columbus post office sketch of
the city Of Columbus, where the
public can examine il, and thereby
learn the character of the sketches of
the towns which will appear in the
work. A correct and faithful his
tory Of the State, we should think,
would command rapid and ex ten
sive sale, as no such work has yet
been offered to the public. N ,
j. c. Petersen has sold his
butcher business to Gatward &
Nickel, the latter named gentleman
from Omaha. Mr.. Gatwsrd has been
i'm the employ of Mr.. Petersen In his
market for nearly two years, and
consequently well informed as to
the wants of the old customers. Mr..
Petersen's reputation as first-class
market man has been well establish.
ed, and he does not hesitate to rec
ommend them to the public. The
new firm will be glad to receive the
patronage of all the old customers,
and as many new ones as may choose
to favor them. Only first-class
meets kept at the market as usual.
29-1t
j. &. McMahon, chief of police
of the city, was arraigned before the
city council at a meeting Thursday
evening on a charge of unwarranted
abuse in arresting one Chas. Will
Jams on or about Oct. 11th ult., for
whom he had a warrant, and also
with being drunk on or about Oct.
25th. The charges were brought by
councilman Gluck, and the evidence
was principally subpoenaed on be-
half of the prosecution. The vote
of the council after hearing the evil
dence stood four to two for acquittal
on the charge of unwarrsnted abuse,
but the charge of drunkenness was
declared sustained by q vote of four
to two.
The election returns from Ne
brasks, except in few special
localities, where personal and not
political considerations entered into
the contest, show very favorably for
the Republicans. We have not been
able to obtain anything like cor
rect count of the majority on the
State ticket for the Republicans, but
have learned enough to know that it
is large and healthy, as usual. In
our own county we have no reason
to complain, as by an examination
of the official returns published in
this number of the JOURNAL it will
be seen that all the Republicans on
the county ticket were elected, ex-
cept two, the sheriff and coroner.
Winter evenings will soon be
upon us again, and the attention of
good many of our country cousins
Is given writing up the best way of
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