Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-14
STATE 10 THINGS.

State Democrat: give hundred head OF
cattle and five hundred head of hogs, fat.
tened near Raymond, were shipped to
Chicago last Thursday by Sam Barker.
The lot IL estimated to be worth $65. 900.
This 10 the heaviest shipment made from
this country for several years."
One day last week q couple of road agents
waylaid q mail carrier on the Ora d
Island and Runnelsbnrg route, and ordered
him to stop and deliver. Not thinking
that way, he dashed his team and escaped,
the ~highwaymen firing three shots at him
as he I'D.
The case of the rascal Glazier, who 30
sdroitly swind!ed this Lincoln money loan
ers out Of several thousand dollars, is still
a source of fretfulness. All who accom-.
modated the slick chap, except one, are
grooming over their mlsfortunes.
The Nebraska corn that has heretofore
been graded in Chicago as rejected" was
the calico or red.striped kind, 80 it Is said,
and the farmers are advised to plant
either the large yellow or white Dent
variety.
Valentine. the new terminus Of the
Sioux City & Pacific, has four saloons, two
stores, n drug store, two livery stables,
one newspaper, and two or three building
hoiSo1p SCNOts - hoW AoAhh
up.
A company of Juniata ladies, hand
somely uniformed and armed with brooms,
will appear at the state reunion at Hast.
ings next September, where they will give
an exhibition drill of the broom brigade.
The amount of capital invested in nation.
al banks, IN proportion to the population,
Is greater in Nebrask, than Missouri or
Kansas. In thirty three national banks In
this state, the capital Is s2,3lO,OOO.
The North Loup board has Issued an
ordinance requiring all able bodied men to
work two days eacn year on the streets and
alleys Of that town, or to pay 50. so If they
don't want to do the work.
A party Of one hundred and ten families
from Pennsylvania are on their WY to
Southern Nebraska, where 1t is expected
they will purchase some Of the Otoe reser.
walton lands.
Eight tn usand acres of and In Pierce
county were sold at the Neigh land office
lsst week to q company of New York stock
r%sisers. They paid Sl0,0 o for the tract,
This state will soon be cvsr stocked
with women; the state superintendent re.
ports that there are In Nebraska 7,C0(
more girls Of school age than boys.
Ing bhSt CUuuty lar ~ JChE VII buI'
pass all others in point of stock display In
particular. The increase in this during
the past year has been immense.
The people of Rulo. Richardson Co., arr
in trouble about the Bible being read in
the public schools. The Catholics objec,
to King James version,
1t Is said that the German carp placed
in the state hatchery ponds at South Benc
ura Ayipu ~ and tha cauga IN aail m ba
parasitic growth.
A board OF trade, composed of fifty
members, Of the leading business men OF
Beatrice. was o~rganizsd ut that place last
Thursday night.
A large white pelican, measuring about
seven feet from tip to tip of wings, wa
killed two miles north of Lincoln last
Thursday.
Notwithstanding the cold ave which
passed over the at tie last week, the pros
poets for a large crop OF fruit are enoour
aging.
The Leader predicts the erection Of one
hundred houses in Genoa between the Isl
of March and the 3lst Of December, 1888
Toe David City Republican advises
farmers to examine their corn cribs. 1t Ii
rumored that much OF the corn Is rotting'
1t Is reported that q boom has strucl
Nebraska City that will add 5000 to III
population within the next year.
rAThe Pawnee City people have ORGANIZED
a company and intend to build q RAILROAD
from Topeka to Lincoln.
The b. l. M. Cannon Bali" train does
rot stop at any of the small stations in
the Republican valley.
The state superintendent m reports thai