The Columbus journal., 1881-09-07

~. oI1nleg, the lalter Deing the lady
who was struck by the engine.
A. c. Turner, one of the pro-
prietors of the JOURNAL, left on
Wednesday last for q sojourn in
eastern Ohio, bis old home He was
accompanied by Mrs. NJ. X. Turner
and her son Ralph. This is their
first visit to the old home since COM
ing west, in 1870, II.
M. Burns brings rs, from an
eighty acre field in Madison county,
owned by the Gross Bros, the lar
gest and best ear of corn We have
seen this year. II is the admiration
of all who see it. II was planted on
the 22nd of May. We have had
wonderful corn weather this sum-
mer.
Carl Kramer, representing the
y. Y. c. G. Store, and Ed. Shaw,
representing Jno. Virgins were
out whOlesaleing last week, and WIS.,
tied Lost Creek, Genoa, Fullerton
St. Edwards and Albion. They re-
port the country as prosperous, sales
good, and hundreds coming to the
Columbus Fair.
We live in the country ourself,
but we have heard several remark
that last Sunday was very mean
day in the city-so hot and so dusty.
However, there is compensation al
ways, for Monday was cool aud de-
lightfully pleasant. What humanity
needs to learn is TO strike q general
average in all such cases.
M. Burns, who has recently
been sojourning at Atkinson, Holt
Co, eighteen miles above O'Neill,
says that oats, potatoes and corn
look splendid; that the country is
filling up fast; that there are no
railroad lands in Holt-a great ad-
vantage to settlers; that the new
depot at O'Neill is about completed
and the first train of the Elkhorn
Valley will be run to Atkinson next
Saturday.
Phil Cain, one of the stsunch bus
iness men of Columbus, who can see
as far through a milestone as the
next man, arrived in the city yester-
day with two car loads of potatoes
and a carload of water-melons the
potatoes he sells readily at 81 per
bushel, and the watermelons at fif-
teen cents each. We might say in
this connection, that Phillip has
forty-eight acre potato patch, which
promises to yield one hundred BUSH
els per acre.-Lincoln Journal Sep.
3Td.
Co. r. Hummer Guards, under
Capt. r. III. Henry, started for the
reunion at Lincoln yesterday morn
ing, on the L. 2. ria Valley Station.
The number reporting for duty was
thirty and they made a fine appear
ance. We learn that all the tents
which had been erected on the
grounds last week were blown down
Saturday night. If the bows have to
go upon "the tented field" without
the actual canvas tents, during this
cold, wet rain, it will be an occasion
long to be remembered by them.
The Omaha Telegram advises
the State Fair authorities to make it
so hot for gamblers and their assO-
ciates that they will decamp. The
races have made them more plenti-
full at Council Bluffs. The Telegram
AYERS, and perhaps truthfully. that
''there have been more rol berries and
murders committed on the piece of
ground lying between the river and
the bluffs than on any other spot of
the same extent in the United
States" In this state of affairs it
will not be amiss for those attending
the Fair to be watchful.
During the night ofthe last circus
here one of the employees got drunk,
lay down near the railroad track
with his right hand over the rail,
went to sleep, and wakened minus
the whole hand except the thumb.
OF course he had to have a surgical
operation performed, and has been in
the hospital ever since until dis
charged the other day. 1t is bearing
such expenses as this, on account of
d unkenness, that makes the honest,
hard-working, tax paying citizen,
opposed to drunkenness, a habit
loathsome to all right-minded men.
-Jno. Elliott exhibited US a very
fine specimen of sorghum syrup,
msnufactured by Mr.. Kerr, from
the amber cane grown by himself.
Mr.. Elliott says that the seed was
planted in June; that be put in one
half acre, working it like corn, that
the stalks grew ten to eleven feet
high, and that from the half-acre was
manufactured just eighty-nine gal
Ions of syrup, and it is excellent, as
we can testify. When such syrup
as this can be made, we consider the
saccharine problem settled for Ne
brasks, especially as Mr.. Elliott as
sures Us that good sugar can be