Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-21
MINOR MENTION.
See Joseph Refers spring styles.
Cheap Railroad Tickets at Bushnell's

Justice Abbott desires to state that he
is aspiring or perspiring for the shirley.
atty.
The engine room of the iron works was
so flooded yesterday that work had TO
cease.
No pains are being spared to make the
coming Fourth Of July celebration a big
success.
There have been over three hundred
cases in the police court during the last
three months.
The examinations of the boys in st.
.1oseph's academy are to be held next
Monday and Tuesday.
Little Sioux, Big Soap, Maggie F.,
Lucreace, and other fleet ones, are ex-
pected here on the Fourth.
There is a demand for Council Bluffs
young orators. Charles M. Harl is called
for at Little Sioux on the Fourth.
E. G.. Cole, the real estate man, is
building a little brick Office on Main
street, next to James q Haverstock's
The case of John Reynolds, charged
with beating a board bill at Nick Back
us, has been continued until the 30th.
An interesting programme is arranged
for the graduating exercises of the high
school to be held in Dohany's hall this
evening.
The long-prolonged case of Dougherty,
charged with stealing a cow, has had an
other postponement, this time until the
end of the month.
Justice Schurz yesterday discharged w.
X. Woodland from the charge of raising a
disturbance in front of Mrs. Hoag's
boarding house.
1t is said that the Methodists have de.
cided not to begin their church enter.
prise this year, but to wait until some
more convenient season,
Raymond & Campbell have been given
the contract for building a bridge over
the creek at North Main street, and work
will as soon as the material
arrives, which will be in about a month.
The job department of this Office has
not caught up with orders since its presses
first started up. 1t is evident from this
that folks do appreciate fine work, espe-
S"nJ "HSh SpupiCo Will lcdSolluDlO
prices.
The appearance of THE BEE in its en-.
larged form, and with its new dress, win,
for it much praise from Council Bluff
folks. Delivered at your door at onl,
twenty cents a week, it gives the mos
news for tho least money, of any paper il
this part of the land.
Tho ma, Ep;nht o,,o,@,l e., ..-l:-.
some windows and lumber from the driv
ing park, was discharged yesterday. TIL,
prosecution went lame because of tn,
absence of Mr.. Pettibone, who was con
sidered an important witness, and whc
was not in the city.
One of DIR. Archibald's horses, Nor
mont, a very speedy and promising colt
o in the hands of Sam Colbourn, tn
veteran driver and trainer, at the driving
park, is to give an exhibition of speed a
the driving park on the Fourth.
Yesterday morning the rain came down
IN torrents again, and gave a rise to tn,
creek, but did no great damage excep
additional washouts of banks and fills
The river is on the rise, too, and som
alarm was felt about that yesterday.
A number of teams standing in tn
streets were started yesterday mornin
by the sharp-falling hail. One ice wagoi
scattered part of its load along Pear
street, and n of the evening paper re
porters, seeing one of the chunks fall
ran out and picked it up, supposing
was a hailstone, and that he had struck
sensation.
1t is useless for newspaper canvasser
to try to build up their own circulatio
by trying to make Council Bluffs folk be
lieve that The BEE is a twenty-five cen
a week paper. Larger than any othe
paper, and crowded with more and bette
news, it still sticks to the low price {
twenty cents n week, delivered by ca
rier.
There are many readers of THE Be
who are keeping their weather eye out
see how near the medium hit it, who tw
weeks or so ago predicted in these co
umn that there would be heavy rain
until the Goth, and then it will come G
80 hot and dry that the earth will |
parched and cracked as never befor
Yesterday should have ended the raj
season according to this prediction.
FRANK +. ward, OF burlington, All o
gineer on one of the eastern division
had to run a train through to Coun,
Bluffs on special orders. He improv,
this chance for a wedding trip too, al
while here yesterday got out the nece
sary license and had Justice Schurz
him tight to a prepossessing young la'
named Nellie Z. Merritt, of Janespoi
Mo The newly welded ones start
back for Burlington last evening.
While others are discussing and cussi
the creek, Justice Schurz has gone
work on his property, and is building
private levee, three or four feet in heig
and five feet across, which he belle,
will protect his property in case of a
other food. If the experiment succee
hls ~neighbors will take the benefit of
experience. If it does not they will S
'Itold you So" In any event it is
great deal better than standing +
trying to decide what to do.
A special train managed to get throu
from st. Joe yesterday, bringing hon
some of those who have been attendi
the sengerfest there. The band a
came. Others of the excursionists +.
left, owing to a misunderstanding as
when the train was TO start. Those W
returned report a fine time, except