Omaha daily bee., 1883-11-09
MINOR MENTION,


The board of trade is to meet Monda
night.
The city council celebrates again Nor
day evening.
The Transfer club is to have O leve
and promenade on next wednesday even
ing.
Work has actively commenced on tn,
bridge over Indian creek at Bryan
street.
B. McAuley appears at Dohoney's mex
Monday evening in "Uncle Dan1 o
Jarvis Section"
Miss Ella Miller, a returned missionar,
from India, gave an interesting lectur,
at the Baptist church last evening,
Mrs. Kate Herbert now asks for a re
lease from the matrimonial bonds fasten
her to George Herbert. She claims h,
has deserted her.
Leave to marry was granted yesterday
to j. d. Clark and Ginerva Jump, both
of this city; also to H. G. McGraw and
Anna Stocker, both of Carson.
Seven and a quarter pounds of papers
were filed yesterday in the case of
Groneweg d S~cbeentgen VS.. w. B.
Campbell, sent here from Mills county.
The leading attraction in Abbott's
court yesterday was the examination of
the charge of unwifely conduct pre-.
ferred against Mrs. Ed. Burke by her
husband.
David T%ostevin was again booked at
the police station yesterday, this time as
drunk or eccentric" His eccentricity,
If that is what is the matter, is getting
unbearable.
The time of the Superior Court was
taken up yesterday in the further hear
ing of the case of Colby VS.. The Cedar
Rapids Insurance company, the question
being of law rather than fact.
Tomorrow afternoon there is the
promise of much sport at the driving
park. There is to be a race between
Little Sioux and DIR. Cary's black mare
Lorere. Also a contest for single road
aters for 800.
j. M. Dorr, principal of the public
schools at Cheney, Neb., was married in
this city to Miss Sarah Stocker, of Nor
engo, ILL.,, Wednesday evening and the
happy couple left for their Nebraska
home yesterday.
Pottowattamie Grove No. 90, Ancient
Order of Druids, had the following Off
Gers installed by District Deputy E..
Rosecrans: J.. ID. Nicholson, N. A.;
James A. Herald, V. A.; Fred Spetman,
Conductor; John Stage, I. e.; Phillip
Thomas, o. g.
Deputy Sheriff Clatterbuck left last
evening to take Anna Scott, the crazy
colored woman of Carson, to the asylum
at Mt. Pleasant. He also had the papers
for the trsnsfer of Levi Graybill and JUS
tus Beichlen from Mt. Pleasant to Dav-
export.
DR.. Green's horse took q run yesterday
down Broadway, and turned into North
Main running into its boarding place at
Or. Patton's livery stable. colliding with
the front post, but fortunately not hurt
ing him. The buggy escaped damage
also.
G. j. Smith, who was arrested for
stealing q gold watch from Mrs. Davis
secondhand store on Broadway and sew
eral buffalo robes from livery stables, has
been held to answer to the grand Jury,
his bail being fixed at $500. Being un-
able to furnish it he lies in Jail.
Mr.. Charles Dodge, the agent of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul, at the
Union Pacific depot, was on Wednesday
night married to Miss Alma Jennings,
daughter of j. J.. Jennings. Both are
anost worthy young folks and have many
friends. The ceremony was performed
by Rev. G. Hamlin, Of the Congrega.
tional church, in the presence of the rel
atives and o few intimate friends of the
contracting parties.
s. I. Walker rises to correct The BEE.
He is seeking to get the State book bind.
ing, and not the State printing. The
State printing will probably go again to
the TT. Dodge Office, but if Mr.. Walker
could be chosen as the State binder, it
would not only be agreeable to him, but
to many others as well, who believe that
the would not only be well and honestly
done, but who would like to see 80 worthy
a man yet the position.
The next term of the district court
promises to be q dry one, in one respect
at least. The roof of the court house is
actually being fixed. 1t will be a little
awkward at FIRST for the ATTORNEYS who
have been in the habit, on rainy DAYS. Of
holding an umbrella with one hand, while
gesturing with the other, in their argu-
ments before the jury. The court room
itself ID also to be calcomined and cleaned
up before court opens. b
Mueller, the music man, is on the
jump these days, and is sending out in.
struments, musical goods, fancy goods.
and toys in all directions. Yesterdav
when we dropped into his palace store'
there were about fifteen orders ON tho
floor being packed for shipment. while
Mueller himself, with coat of. was LOOK.
ing over fully fifty more, which had 90,
TO be filled, and all this, too, not count
ing the pianos and a He laughed
and remarked, 'There is no use TALKING
advertising does pay"
Yesterday morning the marshal hel,
an auction sale of the unredeemed prom
erty left at police headquarters to secur
fines, etc. The sale was largely attend
ed. The stock consisted of watches
rings and clothes wringers, old whisk
bottles, revolvers and jackknives. stun
shots, pocketbooks, false hair, old keys
paste diamonds, etc. The total amour
OF the sale was S40.7 5. In the eagernes
to get bargains one fellow bid of a watc
which had no works in it, while oil
knives, three for a quarter, went o
quicker than watermelons near a school
house. This is the frat sale that ha