Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-08
STATE JOTTINGS.

Alma IL now the county seat Of Harlan
county.
Phelps Center wants . consignment of
young ladies.
Cr.ameries are ~springing up In all parts
OF the state.
Real estate In Beatrice advanced 40 per
cent last year.
Red Cloud parties are talkingof building
an opera house.
Se%venty.fve families left Reynolds last
week for California.
Citizens of Papillion are taking steps to
incorporate the town.
The David City town board have fixed
the saloon license at $1,000.
The corner stone of the Masonic temple
at Lincoln was laid last week.
A large number Of schools and churches
will be built in Nebraska this summer.
The Sioux City & Pacific railroad is lay.
ing steel rails on the Nebraska division.
1t is estimated that Custer county will
rore than double its population this year.
The town board of Waterloo has ordered
the county surveyor to make q plat OF the
town.
Arapaboe citizens lie petitionins tho
county commissioners to build q new school
house.
Two thousand calves were recently ship.
Neb.
Humphrey people want a bank on &C.
count of the increasing business OF the
town.
1t is estimated that there were over FIVE
million trees planted in Nebraska On arbor
day.
A number of new buildings are going up
in North Auburn, Nemaha county, this
spring.
Falls City is infes led with gamblers and
calls Upon the city marshall to rid the city
of them.
The musical inclined citizens Of Seward
have organized an association for their
mutual benefit.
Young stock Of all kinds is being
brought into Nebraska from the east in
large numbers.
1t is estimated that the actual flow of
the new city well at Linoolnis 80, 600 gal.
Ions per hour.
At the present time there are twelve So:
looms and four drug stores In Grand Island
paying license.
Several new buildings are being put up
In Marquette, besides q Touring mill which
Is nearly completed.
The contract for building q bridge across
the south channel of the Platte, near Ere.
mont, has been let.
IA disease something like q combination
Of epizootic and pink eye Is killing off
horses in Colfax county.
The new steam Touring mill at Scribner
has commenced running. It Is q complete
structure and cost $4,000,
The First National bank Of Aurora
opened its doors on Monday Of last week
as q national institution.
There is 80, 500 surplus in the village
treasury of Tecumseh, and the people o
town hall built with 1t.
A large number of prairie fires have &C.
Cured in Burt county this spring, causing.
considerable damage to property.
A lodge of Knights OF Pythiss has been
organized at Blair. The society starts out
under the most favorable conditions.
The heavy emigration west still contin.
ues, and Nebraska will secure q larger in
crease of population this year than ever
before.
The improvements made on farms in the
western part Of Adams county exceed
those of any year since the organization Of
the county.
The last government omestead In Thay.
or county was taken up last week. Here
after land will have to be bought in that
county.
RTne Osceola Record says that Frank
| Campbell, of that place, is the owner of Q
calf that weighed 125 pounds when four
days old,
One day last week burglars entered the
store OF j. Rasmussen, of Columbus, blow
ing open the safe and taking S.l7 from the
money dra yer.
Two spans of the bridge across the
Plato, at Schuyler, have gone out. This
bridge has long been q great expense to
Colfax county.
John W. Brown, a lawyer from New
York, hAs bought an 500 acre tract OF
land in Pierce county. He will use it for
stock purposes.
Two men from Superior have obtained
consent from the b. & NJ. railroad com
psny, and will Immediately build an ele-
vator at Hardy.
At the Harvard school during the past
year there has been an average daily at.
tend lnce of 297 pupils. This is considered
a very good showing.
The bridge on the Norfolk branch was
set on FIRE by o prairie fire the other day:
A train lwould lhaye sbeen wrecked ?