Omaha daily bee., 1882-12-22
Echoes Of the JubilatiOn on the
Banks Of K8arley's Canal.
Water Powerful Boom to the
Business of the Town
and Country.
The HuRalontans Paehins General
O'Connor for tho Senatorship.
DR.. Collins Reformed Arithmetic and
Other Matters.
oorrcspoudcncc Of THu Bul.

Correspondence Of THn Bm.
KEARNEY, Neb., December 49,
The people of this place are feeling
unusually jubilant just now. In the
first place they are feeling good over
the success Of their canal project, two
miles of which IL completed, and
whom put to the test worked like q
charm. This canal Is to furnish o five
hundred! horse water power, and also
to furnish the city . splendid system
Of water works, and have water sufi.
ciept besides to irrigate all the ada
cent country. The Canal company 10
organized with o capital of 500, 900.
twenty. five per cent of which
Ia paid in. In addition
to this the city voted
$50, 900 in bonds, and at a meeting of
the council last night 1t was ordered
that the bonds be issued and turned
over to the comp my ct the rate Of
$4,000 per mile As fast as finished.
l find that everybody here Is In
favor of General Conner for the
United States senate. In fact this
feeling extends all over western Ne
braak, and I appreheud that there are
not half q dozen mem in all Buffalo
county, outside Of q small U. p. rail-
road ring, who would not do their
level best for him.
The reform school at this place
now has thirty'seveu pupils, accord
ing to the statement IF DR.. Collins,
the superintendent of the institution,
although it was calculated for but
thirty. But the doctors arithmetic
Is not looked upon as good authority,
especially when 1t il remembered that
he once decided, while speaker of the
house of representatives, that twenty
one was two-thirds Of thirty-two when
a certain salt land bill was pending;
and he not only decided it, but he
stuck to 1t, and, according to the
journals of that body, tweuty.one
Is two.thirds of thirty.two, although
this proposition disagrees with all the
arithmetics nov In use In our common
schools.
Mr.. Grimes, the postmaster here, In
In Warrington a. o Witness In the star
route osses. All he knows In
the matter 10 that one mail
sack was delivered 1t this post
ufu6 neutrality-suspicious. ahssd OF sohed-
the government will have to pay about
FIVE hundred dollars, and as they
have already had the same thing on
the frat trial, this information will
cost the United States at least one
thousand dollars, to say nothing It
the marshal's fees in subpo naing him.
The Kearny county sheriff muir.
derer, Mat. Zimmerman, was confined
In Jail here Sunday night, on his way
to Lincoln. Already the people here
are speculating on another probable
| circus at Minden, like unto the Rich
ards affair, and many people arc max
ing calculations to attend, and it is
publicly stated by some that il they
do not succeed in getting a ticket
they can ut least tear down the enclos-
ure.
The senatorial candidates from the
eastern part OF the state are making
frequent trips to this part Of tho vins-
yard. General Henderson was In
Hastings last week and rumor has it
that Dr.. Sewers, the senator elect
from Adams county, is now an out.
spoken Henderson man. Other can
dilates are looking around and no
candidate imsgines that he has less
than ten or fifteen votes, and rs there
are about thirty candidates and only
one hundred and thirty.three votes,
1T Is possible that there will be some
disappointed men.