McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-01
GENERAL NEWS.

BEN Buffers Encouragement has
decided that women are not persons.
Ir is estimated that Cass countys
apple crop will aggregate 200, 900
bushels.
ORDER has been completely restored
in Hayti. Fifteen hundred lives were
lost and damage to the extent of four
million dollars was done during the late
massacre.
JOAQUIN MILLER's mother, who is
sixty years old, recently married
Portland, Oregon, youtk'of tile tender
age of twenty TWO: Joaquin Will be a
kind father to his step-pareat.
MARY ANDERSON appeared October
9th, in the Lady of Lyons, before q
crowded and enthusiastic house. She
was recalled several times, and renewed
the success she achieved in "Ingoma-;'H'
1 New YORK spent $4,000 for opera
on Monday of last week, and the Bee
says that "some of the snobocrats who
scarcely know symphony from sar.
dine, occupied seats for which they paid
as high as 500
Upon the report of she commissioner
Of pensions, the-secretary of the inter
ior, to-day, suspended from practice
before the interior department, Belva
A. Lockwood, pension attorney of
Washington. Belvas only drawback
was that she had become ''too smart
for her own good "Cuteness' soms-
times kills.
THE second worlds exhibition in
this country will be held in New Or
leans, taking place in the winter of
1S84-5, season of the year when
northerners wilEfnds the Crescent City
a most delightful place to visit. New
! FORK and Boston both made efforts to
to secure the national show. but men
could not be found who would guaran-
tee the requisite amount of money.
AT Wampum, Pa, piece of ground
claimed by the Pittsburg,. Cleveland.
and Toledo railroad and by the Pennsyl-
vania road is in possession of the for
mer, who have il; fortified and garri-
soned by twenty men. The Penrsyl
vania company sent fifty men to be-
siege it.. There was skirmishing all
day Both sides sent for reinforce
ments.. The tracklayers were assault
ed by workmen from the furnace, but
, were driven off.
Mr. CHARLES MAcKAY; in the Pail
Mall Gazette, gives the origin of the
now much used designation "Masher -
It went over to England from this
country, into which it mad been intro
duced by Irish emigrants. The word
masher is derived from the. Gaelic
maise, pronounced masher. and signify
ing fine, handsome, and WAS originally
applied IN derisien to a dandy 1t is
now in similar derision, appropriately APP
piled to modern, uudeveioped men,
whose sole aim IS to dress we'll and
ogle ladies.
THE Texas Siftiags recently contained
quite suggestions though very rude
picture. Briefly it was this: There
stands Bismark with the traditional long
pipe in his mouth, stout and ruddy, rep
resenting the Prussian government; in
front of him is. the American hog, fat,
sleek and undisturbed, MS tail. curling
up over his back; Hsnlrk is flying
six by fourteen boot t. his hog,hlp ,. and
From the mouth OF which floats a
stheamer OH which Caesars word EFT
tn, Brute|-are written The hog
looks as if it, would like to translate
that sentence 10 as to make it read
And you too, you brute. you" TIA
zette- Journal
Mr. JoHN DILLON, of Dublin, Ire
land, whose name is welE known as one
| of that stalwart quartette, Parneil, Dill
lon, Davitt and Egan, who have fought
so faithfully for redress Of Ireland's
wrongs. arrived in the city by yesterday
afternoons Z. P. train, and is. the .
guest OF his former co-laborer, our
towssmaa, Patrick Egan. Mr. Dillon
is in America for the benefit Of his ,
health, having been compelled to re
sign his seat. in the parliament about.
six. months ago, because. of falling
health. He will leave tomorrow fox
Sedaiia, Colorado, to VISIT bis brother,