Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-19
MINOR ME NTIONS.
-Four dodgers took sleeping apartments
At the city Bridewell night before last.

-Four lodgets took sleeping apartments
at the city Bridewell night before last.
-Mr.M ahlan Brown hs sgone to Omai q
rs an employee Of the American Express
company.
CHEAP RAILROAD TIoKETs.-Buy them
from ID. w. Bushnell, 8 doors north Of
postotce. mtf
One colored man, too drunk or mean
TO give his name. was holding services
yesterday in the luxurious apartments
provided by the city.
"A memorial to congress for improving
navigation on Main street was receiving q
boom in that locality last evening. Light
draft schooners could run up as far as the
postofic e, above that barges we're used.
C. II. Nicholas, our friend Of livery
stable motto .iety, Is out on his Western
house scheme, as Mrs. MoAllister has
leased the property to a Minneola man,
who will fling his banner TO the breeze on
or abou, March LIST.
Lafayette Watterson, clerk Of the U.
2 lating house ct the transfer, is very
sick. His wife, nee Miss Rosa Cald well,
returned from her paternal home, at
Crete, Nebraska, yesterday, and finds him
lying very low.
Miss Mary Marshall found a crow Ia
ing In the street the other da y ,)mt
dead. She rescued him from the elements
only TO have him die from the effect, of o
wound. We had the felicity Of viewing
his ebonysnip Saturday, as, mounted by
the taIidermist. Miss Mary will place him
on o bust of pallas over her transom and
teach him the refrain Of Poe's Raven.
Mrs. L. 4. Millen died at the residence
Of her daughter, Mrs. N. b. Smith at the
Rich farm, Feb. 18th, 1883. Her funeral
took place yesterday at 2 O'clock from the
residence Of her daughter. Mrs. Miller
was an old resident of the county. was q
Christian Of many years standing and will
be missed sadly by her friends and rela'
tives.
Louis Meyer, who was arrested last
week on affidavit Of Fred Bokemper for
stealing certain chains Of said Bokemper,
will appear tomorrow morning before
Justice Vaughan to tell his tale. At preE-
emit Louis languishes In the county dun.
geon In default of $500 bail. The chains
were both recovered and are both in the
private drawer of the court.
We wonder when our city authorities
will adopt some more rational aud con-
venient system of advertising the registry
list. The present way IL a benefit to stray
goats and still more stray small boys. Tit
boards make, as we have noticed, q very
convenient target for the uurelenting
tobacco chewer to FIRE at. Some Of these
mArksmen have attained that keennes
of eye and mobility Of mouth that they
can hit any given name seven times out O
ten at ten PAGES. "Honest," now ISM
there something better.
1t is reported that Atlantic has offer
ed go. 600 and the right Of way through
the county to the Toledo road to make
that city o station on It's route. II thii
road Is as Represented, the generous bid Of
Atlantic will meet with that reward which
is assured in that old homily. "Cast tn,
surplus spondulics out upon new railroads
and after many days It will return anc
make your city ten thousand Of peo
ola THAI. ,phak m onvnNatsno tr,,plr h.
would do for Atlantic, Walnut News.
State Of Iowa vs.. Josh Chapman, tn
same being q case Of mayhem, will com
up before Judge Vaughan at 6 o'clock to
night. 1t was postponed several times t
accommodate many witnesses who are en-
ployes at Stuart Bros packing house
This will be the first case Of night sessio,
in any Of our justice courts during tn
season. Some weeks ag, Josh bit the III
Of one John Neal, both parties being EN-
Ployed at the packing house. The cas-
promises TO he interesting.
One Of the coolest mornings Of la
last week, in company with Mr.. w. II
Tilton, we tried several times to obtain er
trance to the Y. NJ. O. A. hall In this cit,
We learned that the organization was d.
ing good work for the needy and di
tressed, and thought that bitter day tn
opportune time to take q peep at the
work. The door was locked, the ha
windy and cold, and the shivering BEE r.
porter thought 1t wasn't precisely clover
the Y. NJ. G. A. Is not Council Bluff
large enough, are there not enough Chri
tian people to pay a secretary, who shO
take charge charge Of their work and a
tend to the detailsi For Christian wor
young men, there Is scarcely q bett
point; perhaps no tow has proportionate
more men in youth and manhood WI
ought to become acquainted with the etc
nal truths Of evangelical teaching, G
there, will there be q move in this matt,
r p Snow a 90 ara atili aliv