Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-24

O,sAnA. Feb. q, 1888


SoliGsd On the snow q couple Of objects
zuhf6h he took to be COW and a. calf on
naalag nearer he saw two dark brown
4a3unls, hut having no weapons he did
n0e vonture IN attack. he stopped long
eaOu9h to take glance 1T the animals,
Wish seemed to be sleeping, and while thus
yntGhing ono Of the beasts raised its head,
ana to his surprise. he recognized it as
Col0rad0 brown, or cinnamon bear, the
othr doubtless being its cub. Several days
aftoe thsy were tracked going in the direc.
.fion of the timbered lands in Washington
oounty. The probability is they were driven
hon tho Niobrara county, and struck for
0maha at once. II is an occurrence
fhat tho oldest inhabitants used to
hnye. TO chase the bears out OF their back
yards in the morning before they could
shop kidding wood to get breakfast with.
&c a not uncommon even now for the
hunters to kill deer within the city limits,
and not long ago two were shot at the
vary door Of the white lead works, in the
southsrn part of the city.
Political Points.
Senator elect Manderson leaves to-day
for Washington, to look over the sc,ne Of
his future labors. There is widespread
oonf1dence throughout the state in the
generals ability to meet the expectations
Of his many friends in Nebraska and else
whore.
Mr.. r. r. Randall, the Burlington and
Missouri railroad immigration agent, IN
forms us that he expects larger immigra-
ton to Nebraska in 1883 than ever before.
He has issued circulars to persons through
out the state to assist him in this matter,
and inform their friends in states east of
the Missouri river of the advantages of
Nebraska as an agricultural state.
Prohibition is not, by any means, popu
Lar in our state Legislature. A PROPOSE
tion for the submission of an amendment
was voted down in the House by vote of
8 to 1. Two years of high license makes
few converts to compulsory temperance.
The high license places the business of
liquor selling into the hands af response
BILE parties, and many, if not all, of the
low Rroggeries have been shut up and the
number Of saloons greatly reduced. 1t
has doubtless worked great deal of
good, and should the question be put on
high or low license we believe there
would be but few votes polled for low H.
eense.
Business is not as brisk as could be de.
sired; railroad building has been stopped
by the cold weather, as has also all other
outdoor work crops are moving slowly,
farmers holding for higher prices, but
somehow or other. they won't go up.
They are up to to-day and down to-mor-
row there seems to be no steadiness in
either rise or fall.
Preparing for Floods.
The Burlington & Missouri River rail-
road folks, warned by the big floods east,
are putting in staunch ice breakers about
their bridge at Plattsmouth. Their method
10 to drive ten or twelve piles up stream
from each bent in tho bridge, and then
saw them off at an angle of As degrees
from the bridge down to the water /; then
frame on top of them a heavy timber ;
then spike on top of thai railroad rail,
90 that the ice coming down the river will
slide up the rail and over the bridge, thus
breaking it into thousand fragments,
and thus hope to save the bridge from the
floating ice.
Fears of food are entertained by the
people residing on the Missouri river Dot
toms, the ice here being two feet thick,
and at Yankton nearly three feet :; and
when it breaks and flooded by the melt
ing SNOW, joined by the waters of the
Yellowstone, it may cause an inundation
as in the spring of 'Sl, doing great dam
ago to towns and farm lands along the
river.
The general health of this section is ex
cellent some few cases of diphtheria and
pnoumonia. Doctors have easy times.