Omaha daily bee., 1884-12-01
MINOR MENTION.
Strengthening prices at Bliss.

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See J. Refers new stock of cloths.
Ladies' stationery at cut prices at Set
mans closing out sale.
Remember the closing out sale {
cloaks at II. Friedman's, 341 Broadway
Blank books and all office stationer
at low prices at Seaman's closing gu
sale.
The great slaughtering of m~illiner
will begging to-day at j. j. Bliss.
There were no preaching services a
the Congregational church yesterday.
The paid fire department is to give
masquerade on the evening of the 23d.
The Bluff City Typographical unior
gives its third annual ball Christmas
nigh.
Permit to. wed has been given A. G.
Hayward, of Downsville, and Kate Jones
of Lovelsnd.
If you want fine portraits for the holi.
days place your order early with Stewart,
the artist. Don't wait.
The Carleton English opera company
tonight give "The Drum Majors
Daughter" at the opera house.
At a union Thanksgiving service at
.Grinnell the sum of SIG 81 was raised
for the Home of the F~riendless.
Hamburg has cut down the pay of Its
alderman from tive dollars q meeting to
1t dollar. Probably there is no diff
Guilty in getting men to serve even for
that.
Ira j. Adams, who let his Ire get the
best of him so that he gave Mrs. Adam a
beating Thanksgiving morning, has been
discharged from custody on condition that
he leave the city.
The Congregational social is to be held
Thursday evening at the institution for
the deaf and dumb. Those who expect
to attend, and who desire transportation,
should apply at w. S. Homer 81 Co.'s
store.
Charles Allen was lying drunk on the
sidewalk on Broadway Saturday night
and when shaken up he was so frighten-
ed that he jumped through the window
of DR.. Ravens drug store, making a big
smash.
Walnut, whose old fire department dis.
banded over q year ago, now has q new
organization with A. S. Burns as chief,
Charles Jacobson and Charles Eroe as
foremen, and w. s. Margeson secretary
and treasurer.
Mr.. K. Morgan, who lately sold his
property to the Home of the Friendless
and returned to his Massachusetts home
in the hope of bettering his health by a
change of climate, died at Agawam,
Mass, on the 10Th.
a.. II. Stewart, the artist, has just
finished a most life.like crayon portrait of
the late Thomas M. Gowdy. Its one of
the best Stewart has made, and that is
saying much, for his other portraits have
won for him very high parise.
Clergymen desiring half fare permits
for 1885, on the Chicago, Milwaukee d
st. Paul, Chicago & Rock Island, Chi
cago g. Northwestern, and Union Pacific
railways are requested to call upon j. L.
De Bevoise, Union Ticket agent, 5O7
Broadway, on or before December g..
e. Keller has bought out Jerry Myers
at No. 10 Main street, and proposes to
run a first-class restaurant and sample
room. He has a great many friends, and
bv following his avowed policy of having
everything decent and in order" he
will doubtless get his full share of
patronage.
Chas. Mason, who was arrested for try.
ing to inveigle q little girl into a house of
ill-fame, was discharged Saturday, County
Attorney MUNSTER concluding that the
probability of conviction was not sufi.
Client to warrant putting the county to
any more costs,
"The Great Republic" is to be pro-
duced at the opera house December ~
and 10. under the direction of ID. l..
Schneider. A large number of school
children are to participate, and Mark
Duryee, of the Ogden house, is to be the
leading comedian.
The Hamburg Times terms the Thanks.
giving proclamation OF Council Bluffs
mayor ''silly bosh," and adds-"Yet the
mayor is only voicing the nonsense of
thousands of Others of his party, who are
90 inflated by a little success that they
seem TO vie with each other to see which
can make the biggest fool of himself"
Tha. proclamation seems to be a red rag,
The mayor rather lost faith In his po-
lice force Saturday night. Finding a.
drunken man on Broadway he blew his
whistle and could get no response, and
after waiting awhile Deputy Marshal
Guannella. who was In bed at the Jail
hearing the whistle, dressed and came 10
the mayors relief and took the fellow
in.