Omaha daily bee., 1883-12-05
MINOR MENTION.
See Joseph Refers fall goods.
Additional local on seventh mage,


pretty well.
The Round Table meets tomorrow
evening at the residence of DIR. Mont
gomery.
Those hand painted tides in the show
windows of Harkners Bros, are making
The ladies all say, "Oh, my"
The nuptials of Alphonse Medgar, the
new partner of A. Louie, to Miss Marie
Gampordon, are now announced.
Marriage permits were yesterday given
to Fred Brunow, of Boone township,
and Martha O. Brunow, of this city.
Three new members have been added
TO the family at the Home of the Friend
less, one a widow and the other two or.
phans.
The funeral services of Mrs. Willard,
sister-in-law of Mr.. George Marshal,
were held yesterday, Rev. A. X. Bates
officiating.
e. w. Jackson has bid Sl13 for the
present city building and the old barn
back of it, and the council has promptly
rejected it.
Mrs. NJ. Carroll, fashionable dress
making. Cutting and fitting a specially.
Apprentices wanted. No. S26 First ave
nue., up stairs.
Wickham Bros. have done about $40
worth Of mason work for the Home of
the Friendless, and generously refused
the preferred cash and donated their
services.
Charles Nicholson has so far recovered
from his fall through a hatchway in Eos
ter Bros. store as to be out and about
again, but he has a pitiable sort of a
limp.
There 80 ,ms to have arisen some mis-
understanding about the date of the next
Royal Arcanum social. 1t is to be Friday,
December 18th, one week from next Fri
day night.
A little babe, nine months old, daughter
OF Jack Hurry, the night yardmaster of
the Union Pacific, last evening got hold
of a can of lye and got some of the terri
bic caustic in her mouth, causing severe
injuries.
Two new safes have been put into the
new city building--one weighing about
1000 pounds in the clerks Office, and the
other about a, 500 pounds for the audit
or's Use. A vault is also to be built for
the old records.
The report that Theodore Lund had
died in his place of business proved to
have been started from the fact that he
tainted away, having been suffering some
from illness. He lives to smile as usual.
Capt. Hayes, of the police force, is on
duty again after a weeks lay off on ac-
count of a badly sprained foot result
Ing from too much of a struggle in
landing e drunken man inside the Gala
boose.
Rev. L. j. Mackay is to lecture in the
Glenwood opera house Friday evening.
II Glenwood people only knew him as
well as Council Bluffs audiences do. the
house would surely be packed. He is,
indeed a most popular and very taking
speaker.
In the district court yesterday, there
were a number of default cases, and yari.
Gus motions entertained, and then the
case OF Richards q Son, of Mobile, Ala,
against John t. Stewart, wa put on trial,
and will probably take most of to-day. 1t
IL a case in which damages are claimed in
s"me shipment of pork.
There was a large masquerade party
Thanksgiving night in Boomer township,
and some of the guests forgot to take
away all their things. l.. Tenson, the
stock dealer there, finds himself provided
with an overcoat, a buffalo robe, q hat
and a quilt, for which he has found no
owners yet
The city's finances are now in such
shape that there is no cash in the police
iund for the payment of police officers,
and they were yesterday given orders on
tile general fund. The council is using
the cash OF the police fund to pay other
hisls with, and the men who help greatly
ID brlng IN the cash, must be content
with discounting their orders.
Ed. Grimes, who was arrested for
aasaulting Kaeller, another c., b. & Q.
employee, with An iron poker, had his
trial before Juatice Schuez yesterday,
and was discharged. The evidence
showed that Kaeller was intoxicated and
came for Grimes, threatening to demolish
hun, and Grimes in turn drew a poker
ON him and hit him over the head.
BY one OF those provoking freaks Of
the type occurring in the best regulated
printing Office, Tue BEE yesterday stated
that the next lecture of the series beinp
delivered by Rev. J. G. Lemon would be
next FRIDAY evening. Not 30. OF course
nor. SUNDAY night is the time. A Sun.
eyenin. ture on Friday night i,
hardly consistent. The lecture nextSun,
day evening is to be on the "Absurditie,
Of Science"
The wire for the electric lights is quit,
low at the corner of Main and Broadway
and Aid. Flicker, chairman Of the com
mlttee on streets and alleys, has notified
tho company that it must be put VI
higher. When chat wire is raised, tn,
telephone wire should be raised too, anC
the fire alarm wires. All the wires il
the city are too low, and ought to b,
raised.