Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16
A JOETlNGS.

Oakdale is moving for a seminary.
The Arlington Enterprise has gone to Serb.
ner.
A $4,000 hotel is one of the coming inn
provements at ONeill.
The Ponca creamery has q churn now good
for 800 or 600 pounds of butter at q churning
The school census of Ashland shows 81
children of school age, a gain of "a over the
previous year.
Engineer Morrison, of the Blair bridge
thinks six weeks will he required to make ii
passable for trains.
An association has been formed at Beatrice,
with a capital of 81, 900, to start and run 9
cooperative store.
The fremont tannery started up this week,
1t is proposed to supply all the boys and girls
of the west with mittens.
The press of the Republican valley are
loudly complaining of the irregularity and in.
sufficiency of the mail service.
An effort is being made to infuse new life
into the North Nebraska Press association. A
meeting will be held at Norfolk, April 20.
The Chester Tribune makes no bones about
it but hoists the names of James Gillespie
Blaine for president and Robert Todd Lincoln
for vice president.
Mr.. John Downey, of Plymouth, Jefferson
SOuhUy. " IL lDE5 VI u ulIu JuIOuku
carelessness. A tub of hot water sent it to
join the cherubs on the other shore.
The editor of the Exeter Enterprise is expe-
~riencint q change of heart on the subject of
hell. 1t is a damp, chilly day, with the coal
bin empty, when an editor ~contemplates the
warmth Of the future.
Red Cloud is figuring on q bridge over the
Republican river-one of two spans of 175 feet
each and 16 feet wide, with stone abutements.
The cost is estimated at S2l, 900. But where
to raise this cash Is the rub.
Mr.. Jumbo G. Morgan, ex.leader of the
Council Bluffs democracy and editor of The
Globe, will a the echoes in Kearney dur
ing the campaign with a democratic tin whis-
tie. The new paper will appear about the LIST
of May.
A new bank has been incorporated at Ne
braska City with $50, 900 capital. There are
fifteen stockholders, selected from among the
wealthlest citizens of that city. 1t will be
known as the Farmers Bank, and will be
ready for business June LIST.
The Fremont Herald of Saturday issued an
illustrated review of the progress of ''The
Prettiest City in the State" The prominent
business buildings, residences and manufacto-
ries were illustrated, and the review of the
growth of the city made a showing of pros
p~eritylof which any people may well be proud.
The Tecumseh Torchli2ht says: mo one
can help admiring the enterprise displayed by
THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, iii furnishing its read
ers with special dispatches from Chicago and
other eastern cities being much later than
the regular press dispatches. 1t expends from
one to two hundred dollars per month, for
this purpose, and its enterprise is appre-
ciated."
A Norfolk man. Henry Schroeder, went to
Pierce, and bowled up. III his budged condi-
ton he visited the house of a German family,
lately arrived, where, in the absence of the
husband, he made an Indecent assault upon
the woman. The return of the man fright
ened Schroeder away, but he was followed by
the husband, a few minutes later, and over
taken in a saloon, where the late arrival from
Germany gave the offender a thorough thrash
ing. Then the crowd suggested to Schroeder
that If he was not out of town in twenty min
utes he would have his neck stretched; and he
left, Sin short order and without ceremony"
Uncle Benny Van Sickle is an ancient
masher on the second childhood side of GO.
A few years ago he got stuck on the charms
of the dashipg widow James. She recipro-
Gated the Manitoban warmth of his love and
agreed to tie to. To make the bargain bind
ing Benny mortgaRed his farm and turned the
paper over to the widow. Immediately after
being ''sealed unto him." che turned the
mortgage into cash and jumped the county,
leaving old Ben the sicSlied memory of o
high.priced honeymoon eclipsed. His old
heart did not wilt very much, for soon after
he found and married a woman about his "
oge, slant of body and timber limbsd. She
was not n match for Ben. however, and after
thrashing her regularly for a month or two,
she also departed, and Benny Is again alone.