Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-06
MINOR ME NTIONS.

See Joseph Refers spring styles.
j. @. Davis and Alice Overton are
permitted to marry.
j. A. Morgeeson and Lydia M. Chase,
Of Walnut, will we'd.
John Teiselman and Emma Lammart.
of this city, want to marry.
IF. H. Drury and G. y. Durham,
both of Council Bluff, want to be made
one.
-Chas. L. Brockway and Sarah e. Dag.
gett, the former from Whitewater and the
latter Of Hastings, Neb., took out mar.
riage license.
j. w. Moss, Of Crescent, and Sarah
Foote, have concluded to foot 1t in double
harness hereafter, over the moss of life's
pathway.
Ida A. Judd, Of Avoca, has said Eyes"
to q. K. II. Wineland, of the same place.
and their names are on the county clerks
book in this city.
Yesterday the ~saloonkeepers came out
and gave themselves q ~sunning-no that's
wrong-it was o clouding. They, ct least,
Of the conflicting interests were indefati-
gable In working at the polls.
Among the arrivals in our city March
4 was q lady boarder at the the family resi-.
dence Of j. H.. Hurley, on Wet Broad.
way, weighing fifteen pounds. Jack is
happy. All are doing well.
"A travelling man yesterday, who was
stopping at the Ogden, wanted some wine
at the dinner table, and couldn't be recon-
ciled when informed that It was election
day, and to obtain the rosy was impossi.
BILE.
The fire boys have their new uniforms,
and will now be prepared to mash on short
notice and in the most approved style. We
tried to persuade one OF them that it was
their duty to make q dress parade down
Broadway with Furnished sccoutrements
and bedizened uniforms, but he couldn't
be convinced.
"A couple Of what appeared to be huge
skiffs, on f~iat.cars at the u. P. yard, at
tracted our attention. They are monster
life boats, built in the east, and nre being
shipped to San Francisco for the life.
saving service there. They are about
thirty feet long by ten wide, and each one
monopolizes o whole Rat-car.
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1t was amusing to ask the opposing
candidates and their auxiliaries In the
Fourth ward who was going to get there.
Every retainer Of 'em stostly asserted the
inoontrovertible fact that his man "had
polled by far the largest vote" and 'there
was . strong crowd who came in late who
always voted their ticket" To the re-
porter up IN the curbstone It seemed
funny.
Indian Nephi has fallen again into the
vices Of civilization. Plainly speaking,
Nephi was drunk. Worst of all he wasn't
acute enough to wait till election day,
whom II Is considered the essential thing to
reach the state Of tipsiness. He was too
previous, too unlearned In the ways Of the
Cauoasian and Of course must suffer.
Some one went his surety till the 10th, at
which time the court will assess the
damages.
The big joke of the season is on City
Marshal jackson. He has just COM
pleted, or nearly completed, q frame resi-.
dence. only to find out that 1t is within the
fire limit where nothing but brick Is oil.
lowed. It will entail q loss of several
hundred dollars. II there Is q delay in tho
removal Of the structure, IL will be still
more amusing to see the city marshal serve
notice on the owner to comply with the
law or suffer consequences.
1T Is q curious machine, Is the average
woman. You mustn't iatter too much,
and yet you need to cozen her . little to be
on good terms with her. One Of her lido
syncrasies that we could never penetrate IL
Why she so sc~ornfully resents having any
Of the partalooned parts of creation
call ed her friend" What there Il to the
female mind In this usually pleasant word
that should food her soul with the waters
OF bitterness and burden her tongue with
call. Is a vagary that lies beyond us. Will
some student Of the feminine arise and OK.
plain?
THE Medical Aspect Of the Temper
ance Question" was the subject Of the
Rev. H. McMeekin's sermon Sunday
night at the Presbyterian church. He
gave his large audience o complete resume
OF the manufacture, sale and effect upon
the human system Of spurious liquors.
His address was fortified by scientific
facts and was impressivsly delivered.
Lattsrly he spoke Of the liquor business In
our own city and It's alarming evil, and
wildly pointed out the urgent need Of ao-
ton In the matter.
"A man called In at the BIZ Office Yea.
terday who was red hot ever an occurrence
he relates Is follows: A couple Of young
men boarded one Of the street cars at the
@. q N. w. depot. They wanted to. 20 to
the transfer. and upon asking If that car
ran there were told It did by the driver.
When they reached the Ogden house they
naturally wanted to know where thu trans.
fer was. and when the true state of things
was revealed to them made some very un.
Christian observations on the car driver
and plodded down toward the Missouri.
The election here yesterday was not o
choice Of the people. but Of those who de-
sire the continuance Of free whisky, &C.
companied with dens of vice, crime and
gambling, without even q restraint, and II
accomplished 1t was done by the free use
OF money In purchasing votes. They freely
offered from q. 80 10 81 nar ynta and Il |