Omaha daily bee., 1884-01-21
MINOR MENTION.

Baptist pulpit yesterday.
1t cost Mat o'Brien $40 to interview
Judge Aylesworth Saturday. A plaiE
drunk.
w. Culp, for being drunk, is to appear
in the superior court this morning or for
felt $40.
The young men are planning for a re-
turn leap year party to Offset some of
those given by the young ladies.
Andrew Hill, arrested for numerically
beating a team of horses, was fined $500
and costs by Justice Schurz yesterday.
j. M. Matthews, county su~perintend-
ent of schools, has appointed his wife as
deputy, and the office is to be at their
residence.
Old man Gibson, whose frequent
drunks have caused his family 80 much
trouble, was SOLDERING off IN the cooler
yesterday.
Some aeet-footed steeds belonging to
William Wood, of Beatrice, Neb.. are ex-
pected soon to be put in training at the
driving park.
Several pairs of skates nave been taken
from the reception room of the ice-skat-
ing rink, sneak thieves having doubtless
been the plunderers.
Those who are tnow running billiard
and pool tables without the needful Ii
censes are now to be brought to the front
and dealt with according to the law.
Mrs. Kennedy, widow of the late
Richard Kennedy, desires through THE
BEE, to express her thanks to those who
were SO kind during his fatal illness.
The fine residence Of Mr.. Jonathan
Uhl, in Shenandoah, burned to the
ground last Wednesday. 1t was insured
for 81, 500 and the contents for $500.
The Emerson Chronicle predicts a dry
summer. The wholesale liquor house"
of the place has been sold under the con-
stables hammer for 81, and the stock
scattered among the several purchasers.
Among the latest donations to the
Home of the Friendless are: j. ID. Ed
munson So, Henry Eiseman SIS, j. FL.
Burroughs So, Mayor Bowman So.
Some eight or ten donations of clothing
have also been received.
Mrs. l. 7. Ware, the principal of the
Bloomer school building, has been taken
i'll with what threatens to prove diph-
liberia. and hence there will be no school
in her room to-day, no substitute having
been secured.
w. ii. Strickland, business manager
of Shook & Collins Lights O'London,
was in the city Saturday arranging for
the appearance of the company here next
Friday and Saturday evenings. The
SHOW has a fine reputation and will draw
packed houses.
Adjourned meeting of the Young Mems
Christian association at their rooms, No.
10 Main street, this evening, at 1880. 1t
is hoped as many members will represent
as possible, as arrangements are to be
made for a reception to be given tho new
general secretary, Harry Curtis.
w. X. Cooper has commenced a suit
against Mills county for 500, 900 as dam.
ages sustained by his wife by the break
ing of a bridge in Apglerson township
while passing over it two years ago last
Fourth of July, Mrs. Cooper having been
u helpless invalid ever since.
Jim Snodderly and Mickey Hanks, ar
rested on the charge of cracking the safe
of the Crescent City postofice, are
to have a hearing before Judge Ayles-
worth TO-DAY. 1t is predicted that they
will be discharged, unless more evidence
is obtained against them than what is
now in the hands of the prosecution.
At a citizens meeting held at Nicola
Friday last, a committee was appointed
to consider what action should be taken in
regard to the question OF q new oourI
house and jail. This committee is tc
meet at the Pacific house tomorrow
morning at ten o clock, and all persons
interested in the recen t action of tn,
board of supervisors are invited to NEE
with them.
w. ii. Mullane, late of the Nicola Re
porter, has now settled at Persia, a liv,
little town about thirty miles from tn,
Bluffs. He now sends forth the frs
number of his new paper, ''The Persia
Post" an attractive and newsy sort o.
sheet which bears evidence in its col
umns that its editor has enthusiastically
devoted himself to booming Persia. Tn,
wideawake merchants of that place will
therefore. see it to their advantage Il
heartily support the enterprise.
There is such a thing IS a man being
too polite at the wrong time. A polished
young gentleman, arrested for disturbing
the peace, was finally let off by Judg,
AylAsworth. In his rush Of grateful
feelings the young man gushed out
Thank you. your honor. am very
much obliged, and hope ! shall have al