Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22
STATE JOTTINGS.

NeaTney mas n Cnurcn bell.
Superior's mill is running.
Hebron has street sprinkling,
Calvert will soon have n bank.
Pilger is to have o cheese factory.
Hardy is TO have a broom factory.
The railroad has reached O'Neil.
Burglars raided Hastings last week.
The debt of Adams county is $50. 900.
Work has begun on Osceola's new court
house.
A canning factory has opened at Ere.
mont.
Howard Is enjoying quite a building
boom.
Oakland has erected sixty dwellings thi:
summer
The spire of Oakdale's Methodist churcf
is raised.
Beatrice wants a three thousand dollars
school house.
Tecumseh is to have a Catholic church.
Cost, 5000.
A new Odd Fellows hall will be erected
at Fremont.
Crete's new mill will be in operation six
weeks hence.
O'Neils new Catholic church will b,
biilt Of brick.
Furnas county brags of seed onions six
inches in diameter.
Fairbury wants a brick yard and a man
to make brick in it.
|. Alma's wheat market bought LOCO
bushels the first day.
West Points new Methodist church was
dedicated on Sunday.
Stanton's G. A. r. will attend the Lin.
coin re-union in n body.
Furnas county physicians have organ.
lied a medical association.
Fires have been started in the Union
Pacific shops ut Grand Island.
The corn and oat crop of Boone county
is splendid, but the wheat very short.
Hastings is to have a new bank, to be
known as the City Bank of Hastings.
Elk Creek, johnson county, is to have a
new brick school house at a cost of 81. 500.
Creighton has organized organized q
post of the Grand Army of the Republic.
A new precinct has been organized in
Dixon county, called Wakefield precinct.
Lincoln ladies are moving in the matters
of obtaining a state Home for the Friend
less.
The brick machine of the West Point
b. & G. association turns ont 20, OOO0 brick
q day.
The West Point Butter and Cheese AS.
ISOLATION will build an addition to their
paper mill.
The Columbus Driving Park association
has purchased forty acres of land for q half
mile track.
A drink of concentratedly I've nearly ended
the life of little Johnny johnson, of
Adams county.
The Otoe County Sunday-school conven.
ton meets in Nebraska City on August
Odd and oath.
Saloon keepers in Fairmont are expert.
encing difficulty in procuring the petition.
ers required by the new law.
A Mr.. Campbell, of Seward county,
raised a crop of oats this year which aver
aged ffty-two bushels per acre.
Damage to the Jefferson comfy fair
grounds by the spring rains was so extern
sive that no fair will be held this year,
More cattle will be shipped from North
year. Cattle all in excellent condition.
III OH SDllltTb vi STeUe are making the
necessary arrangements towards the or
ganization of a post of the grand army.
The amount of money to be distributed
at Columbus for the fax seed that has been
engaged for delivery is estimated at $780,
600.
The Old Settlers reunion of Jefferson,
Saline, Fillmore and Thayer counties, is to
be held at Alexandria on the 18th of Sep
TENDER.
The railroad from ST.. Paul to TT. Hart
suff will run on the north side of the river,
leaving Scotia, North Loup and Ord in
the cold.
In attempting to step on a moving train
near Louisville last week, Mrs. M. ID
Harrison slipped under the wheels and was
fatally injured.
A bold attempt of Mr.. Boyle, of CAL
vert, to sell m~ortgaged goods, was foiled
las week and the would be swindler COM
PEELED to disgorge.
Mr.. Edward Hendley, of Grant, Wash
ington county, has a sow which recently
gave birth to a litter of thirteen pigs, one
with two perfectly formed heads.
Mrs. Tanner, of Tecumseh, attempted
to commit suicide lost week by taking sui.
phuric ether. A worthless husband was
the cause of hertrouble.
1t is estimated that within eighteen
months all of the twenty-six buildings re-
Gently destroyed by fire at Pawnee City
will be replaced by substantial brick build
ings.
The barn, a team of horses and $50 BUSH
els of oats belonging to A. b. lark who
lives near Kearney, We're consumed by fire
last week. Cause, the boys and a box of
matches.
David City's school board had a w~rangle
over the removal of partitions in The
school house. An injunction was gotten
ont and served, but not until the partitions
were removed.
Tecumseh has a local sensation in the
attempted shooting of Elder Henry. Scan