McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-08
GENERAL NEWS.

at indianapolis. She returned TO her
home with her father on Monday morn
ing last, and thus ends the Churchill
sensation.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, was visited by
terrific cyclone, Monday .afternoon.
Buildings were blown down, and trees
twisted off A large number of lives
lost and large amount of property de-
stroyed.
FASHIONABLE women have taken to
wearing light canes. The custom has
| its virtue and if the rattan supercedes
the broom and rolling pin, We presume
no objection will be raised by the hen
pecked sex.
THE statement that Colonel Frank
James had been out upon the streets of
Gallitin unaccompanied by an officer, is
denied. Mrs. James was out promenad-
! ing with Frank. Merriam, and the pop
ulace imagined that it was the Colonel.
A LADY says her husband will sit on
a barbed wire fence all the afternoon
to see a baseball match and never move
a muscle, but when he goes to church
he can't sit on cushioned pew for
fifteen minutes without wriggling all
over the seat and changing his position
forty times.
News comes from Burlington that
Freddie arrived in time to escort the
Lilly's mother to the matinee, and per-
form other graceful and pleasing acts.
They are having some colo weather in
Vermont, but it will be colder day
when Freddie fails to show up and
report for business.
Mr.. MATTHEW ARNOLD comes to
America as the apostle of sweetness
and light" Among the "Philistines, "
who are the people to whom Mr. Ar
nold's mission is especially commended,
There is good deal of speculation as
to the nature of his specific for human
woes. Some appear to think that it
imay be taffy and gas. But Of this
there is no lack in this country, either
in social or political circles.-State
Journal.
| THERE is great excitement at and
about Lisbon, Ransom county, Dakota,
over reported gold discoveries in the
valley of the Sheyenne river. Lisbon
is located in the geographical center of
lRanson county, on the Sheyenne, about
fifty miles southwest from Fargo. 1t is
lust now the center of attraction for
Northern Dakota, and promises to boom
as mining camp. Gold Is found in
the sand and gravel and in a quartz
formation which crops out from the
bluffs of the Sheyenne. A hundred
and fifty assays of the rock and gravel
have been made with results varying
from $3.50 to $4,000 of gold per ton,
and some silver, IF this should prove
to be genuine gold field it will over
turn some well established theories re-
garding mineral finds. The region is
liar from the mountains, and the Shey-
tenne in its tortuous course does not
traverse any known gold field, The
people up there have faith in their find
and are forming companies to work up
the rock and deprive it of its wealth.
/ THERE Is bitter rivalry between
tthe new town of Caldwell and the capt.
tai of Idahoy though thirty miles apart,
THE Oregon Short Line created the
former and its location is such that at
present it is paralyzing the older town
| by its enterprise and goaheadativeness.
The citizens are struggling hard to
stem the business decline and have
raised bonus of about $50. 900 to in
duce the Short Line TO build branch
line from Kuna,. fifteen miles distant.
Passengers for Boise do leave the cars
at Kuna, but the freight goes on to-
| Caldwell and is there distributed by i'm
mense trains of eight, ten or twelve
horses to the wagon. Boise is within
two miles of the head Of the valley, and
and everything below it will work away
from it. Ebwn the river the feeling of
satisfaction at the discontinue of Boise
is very manifest. The wealthy farm
ers and stoekmea say that the rule has
been to oppose them when they could
not help themselves, and now that they
can help themselves they are turning a
cold sso~lder toward Boise, and are
glad to DO 1t. This is why they hail
the growth Of Caldwell with delight,