Omaha daily bee., 1883-10-26
MINOR BENT l0N,.
Sec Joseph Raiter's fall goods
Additional locals on seventh page.
Cheap Railroad Tickets at Bushnclrs

s''iA ft-t 10 ponce .'H N~NAttiu"J'
Ibe Wabash was wo Or three hom
la.e yesterday.
The Methodist held a social last even
inc at the residence of Mrs. III. III. Field
Leave to we'd was yesterday granted G
j. Daniels and Sarah Showalter, both o
Washington township.
As The night grows colder the numbe
OF. lod gors aC tie ci..btoso increase
being altogether too chilly to sleep GU
doors.
Harry james, while hunting, got tb.
muzzle Of his gun full Of mud, and The
barrel bur3tcd on firing, but luckily nc
harm done to him.
Charlie Wilson was visible on the
street yesterday driving Little Slow.
He is to winter chat feet stopper ct the
driving park here.
The Royal Arcanum social will be the
society event of this evening, and tho c
who are lucky enough 70 possess tickets
will have a happy time.
Jim Snodderly was again run in yes
terday for being drunk. Jim has kept
pretty straight FOR some time, and IL is
too bad he don't keep bracea up.
Tie superintendent and trustees Of tbe
Institution for The d If and Oglab are
going to ask The Losilltnrc 30 tupi3h
]eIooclc light for tho building instead of
gas.
jus ice Sohurz was the only one of the
trio of magistrate in town yesterday, aud
even IN his court there was little except
civil business. The town is getting
better.
City warrants are now readily cashed
at 93 cents on tho dollar. A year ogo
they sold for about 80 cents. The
finance of the city seem stilfening up,
and getting ie bcttor shape.
The Indian Creek problem seems as
far from being solved as ever. About
$500 a month is Being expended in work
on it, but still there has been no settled
snd permanent place agreed upon.
-Four persons, brothers and sisters
have just had a group picture taken al
one of the photograph galleries here.
The lightest weight of ''the big four
was 2c5 pounds, and the heaviest 2S5
pounds.
On the shelf at police headquarters
there are eleven bottles with more or less
whisky in them, mostly less, taken away
from prisoners, besides three or four
prescription bottles of medicine, etc.
Quite a dtug store.
To-day the Wild West is to be shown
up at the fair grounds, in which DR.. Car
yer and Buffalo Bill, the wonderful shots.
are to appear with their tribe of Indians.
The entertainment is a novel one, will
draw a crowd here, as it does even y
where.
Another agricultural building is to be
put up on Main street north Of the one
now being built for the Sandwich Manu-
featuring company. 1t is to be 20 by leo
feet, two stories aed basement. j. M.
Palmer hos let the contract TO Wickham
Bros, and }. A. Murphy.
The Malvern Leader evidently thinks
Council Blugs is not strictly a prohibi.
ton city. In chronicling the damage
done here by the oreeL, it adds The COM
ment: 1T seems a pity that Council
Council Bluffs makes use Of so little
water, so long as it ia furnished in such
abundance
In the case Of Joseph n. Clouser, found
guilty of murder in the first degree and
sentenced to imprisonment for life, Col.
Keatley, rs attorney for the defendant,
has moved for q new trial, one of the
grounds being that one of the jurymen
kept drinking too much whisky during
The trlNl. Judge Feed is to listen to tho
m~otionsnext Friday at Glenwood.
A portion of the large frame building
lately used by the Massil n thr ,shing ma.
chine company was yeste day mo wed UP
Pearl street all along First avenue. Ono
crossing at the park was badly broken by
the big trucks, and several trees along
the line Of the street had their branches
broken by the moving building. Trees
are too long growing to be thus carelessly
broken.
Inquiry of the city auditor leads to
the information that Alderman James
still holds to the 800 which he drew I'm.
der the black pay" resolution of the
council. As that resolution has been re-
scinded, and as M of the other alder
men have received any 500 for bacl. gay.
Judge James should not need any urg-
ing to put the money hack in the city
pocket book.
>. w. Ferguson, of Grant county,
Missouri, has taken up his abode in this
city and has decided 10 engage in the
lean business, having secured Office loom
at 80 Pearl street, on the gound floor O.
Shugaiss block. Mr., FERGUSON is o
make u specially of six per cent loans or
city and farm property, the firm BEING
S. w. Ferguson d Co., the compapy
being Messrs. Emerson a. Powers, q
Crescent.
The work IN the new city building I il
being pushed right along, and it is now
expected that both that and the new cit,
jail will be occupied by the 10th of No
vember. IG has been thought that IN,
new city Jail could not be used until tn,
water works wore completed, so as 10 us
the sewerage and drainage, but il is no,
planned to use it anyway. Those VIII
are too drunk to take care of their ow
cleanliness, the beastly DRINKS, will b
put in the old ~calaboose, sobercd II
there, and then transferred to the ne,
Jail.
Yesterday, while two OF our naiurali,t
were on their way 10 dinner, their after
ton was attracted by an unknown bird
a tree near by. Recognizing it as q 70
elm animal dirnnI frnn, aha Ii ..o.l.