Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-18
STATE JOTTINGS.


hebron mas street sprlnRllnB.
New hay at Hebron is 81 a ton.
Tecumseh has a building boom in solid
brick.
Nance county is boasting of glorious
crops.
Washington county has corn nineteen
feet high.
Calvert listened to its first sermon last
Sunday.
A Baptist church is to be built at
Herman.
Hon. S. H. Haley is lying very low at
Red Cloud.
The Orleans Sentinel enters upon it's
ninth year.
Ord is calling loudly for a hook and lad.
der company.
Hebron precinct, Thayer county, has
organized an alliance.
The post of the GA. r. at North Platte
have been mustered in.
Fairfield has organized a small but
effective fire department.
North Plates Episcopal church has or.
ganized a Library association.
The foundation is being laid for the
ClarksoN school at North Platte.
Wheat in Hamilton county is said to
average about ten bushels per acre.
Oxford's Catholic church building will
be completed by the first of October.
Sarpy county will have thirteen more
miles of railroad next year than this.
The corner stone of the CONGREGATIONAL
Academy at Franklin was laid last week.
The corner stone of Syracuse's German
Evangelical church was laid on Wednes-
day.
One lumberman from the Superior sold
over SO, 900 worth of lumber within a
week.
The Ord people have raised &1050
toward building a Baptist church at that
place. rI .Y4 .s a4e.,f
More hay is being put up in Lincoln
county this season, than during any pre-
vious year.
The Lincoln 4 Fremont railroad has
organized and elected officers with John
Fitzgerald as president.
The reunion of the Republican Valley
Soldiers Association will be held at Ok
ford on the 22d of this month.
The village Of Edgar has passed an
ordinance prohibiting the erection of
"h sAS iSA pShSsS'
The Missouri Pacific is being pushed
rapidly forward. Graders in large num-
bers are at work in Cass and Sarpy coun-
ties.
A lad named Cunningham, living near
Lincoln was bitten by a rattlesnake on
Monday, and died from the effects of the
wound.
A few days since near Ord Buffalo was
-
s~traggler and the first seen in that section
for many years.
Sixty. four brick business houses are in
progress of construction in Lincoln. Sew
eral of them are three story, and they cost
from $4,000 to $40, 600 EACH.
Managers of the Central Nebraska Dis.
trict Fair are making extensive prepare
tions for the coming exhibition, which
~ill be held from the 10Th to the 23d of
next month.
Two men stopped at the Hoover House
one night last week. One of the men was
busted, and the other man loaned him IS
out of $40 which he had. During the
and skipped out, and has not since been
heard from. Nemaha Times.
Steps looking to the building of the
Crete, thence up the West Blue to York
and Grand Island, are being taken, and
with n good showing of success. The
company that first gets this territory gets
the best there is left in that part of the
state.
A soldier named Monagan was killed at
Sidney last week. 1t seems that he was
playing a game of poker with some sol
der companions, and attempting 20
draw OUT of the game, the Others oh.
jected. To enforce their objection they
belabored him with a chair, thereby injur-
ing him to such an extent that he died in
a few days. The murderers have been
turned oyer to the civil authorities.