Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-07
MINOR ME NTION.

Soc Joseph Reiter's spring styles.
Additional local on seventh page.
Mr.. NJ. d. Weber Is building q nice
little dwelling on Seventeenth venue.
-FoR sALE.-A car load Of horses, Of
w. G. Hollands Livery Stable, on Main
street.
m. w. Hartigan, boiler maker Of
Omaha, was over thi, morning looking up
business aft airs in his line.
-Marshal jackson, what quotation
from Oscar Wilde was It that the widow
used when she came to get her COW out OF
the pound!
"A new set Of platform scales has been
put in on the Union depot platform, TOR
weighing the mails, pursuant to a circular
Just issued DO the postofice department.
Nemesis, whoever she may be, is now
on the track Of the man who is the power
behind the throne Of the COW ordinance,
and his corn shelter is liable to be
pounded.
"A larceny and an assault end battery
case were tried yesterday before Justice
Soburz. Both defendants showed up In
such good shape that they were dis
charged.
The east bound train over the comb.
nation lines this evening will be run on
the Rock Island road at the usual hour
Trains for St. Louis, Chicago and the east
will also 90 out on the Wabash and Mil.
waukee roads.
AT the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul round house the work Of fitting up
the machine shop Is progressing, and will
be completed on the arrival Of the shaft,
which is daily expected.
Mr.. Golf has broken ground for .
dwelling on Seventeenth avenue for Mr.,
Hoffman, section foreman for the o Nd
st. PAR. R., 24x2s. story and . half will
be It's dimensions. Mr.. Hoffman has sold
his late re idence on lower Third street.
Mr. Martin Hughes, contractor, Is
building Q brick house for Samuel Weston
on Tenth avenue, between Seventh and
Eighth streets. Mr.. Hushts Is also doing
the work on the Bennett Luildipg and
Miller & Cos, hardware store on Broad.
way. NtV nHf.
Last winter we noted that o Mrs.
Spear was here from Milwaukee, with q
view to going into business at this place.
The lady returned home ut is now back
again and will, we hope, remain to become
q permanent resident.
The Sullivan senior of the firm Of
Sullivan & Fitzseral, has o COW boarder at
the city yards kept by our worthy pound
master. Mr.. Sullivan says that his COW is
o quiet, peaceable COW, and was never
known to do anything worse than steal o
mouthful Of hay. 4.
Ten bran new COWS were ~impounded
yesterday. Father White rays he has
signed q petition to stop this pounding Of
cows and hopes the fathers Of our city will
heed the prayers Of the petitioners. Gen.
sroui indeed Is the man who Is willing to
sign q petition that Is designed to deprive
him Of Office. .A 81
"A cyclone would be . bad thing for
John Epeneter's roof and stock. The TOP
Of his store is slowly but surely going sky.
ward, and day light flows through three
feet Of On elevation, which will be In.
creased until there Is room below for the
econd story. And 80 we climb.
There will be an entertainment to.
night at Dohany's hail for the benefit Of
st. PAul's church. The Ice cream season
will be in'ugurated although the straw
berries have not yet arrived and the Their.
mometer is not high enough to cause any
willing Of collars. A social hop will ter.
inmate the programme. Everyone Is cor.
daily invited.
Dick Hoaten, Esu.,A Young American
Of pugilistic tendencies and precocious lip,
has attracted the earnest attentions Of
some Of the reputable and peaceably In.
clined PEG le who have known Dick and
bis peoulisrlties, Mrs. John Dunn up.
peared before Judge Aylesworth and OBJ,
tanned q warrant for the arrest Of Richard
The charges are profanity, obscsnity and
general cussednsss. To-day he has hi
trial.
The pound has q father, not Father
White. but another father, who originated
and supports the pound; that Is, no sup
ports 1t by enforcing the COW ordinance
They say this daddy m~onopolizes the corr
business, and after crushing all oppositio,
he hurts the business Of this city by pay
ing from four to Eve cents less than tn
buyers in surrounding towns, thus Undue
ing the farmers to 60 elsewhere to msrke
their produce.
"A laboriug man with q large family
whose income from odd jobs Of dirt shovel
ing has not been as heavy during the pas
hard winter as 1t has been In more fayore
times, found his grocery bill for the las
month unpaid, his children bare foots
and his corn meal nearly exhav sted, whe
the news came that his two cow were |
the pound. The poor man visited all OF
brokers trying to mortgage the two COW
In order to raise the money to pay Il
fines. but up to the present time the COW
are still in the pound.
Browns Bronchial Troches will relic,
Bronchitis, Asthma, Catarrh, Consum
tive and Throat diseases. They are us,
always with good success.