Omaha daily bee., 1884-12-17
MINOR MENTION.

Art display Wednesday at Bliss.
II. II, Stewart, artist, at Chapman's.
See j. Refers new stock of cloths.
Try McClurg's self.raising buckwheat.
1t pay to trade at the Peoples store.
Clocks at your own prices at the PEG.
ple's store.
Everybody is invited to Bliss art dis.
play to-day.
No house In the west can undersell
the Peoples store.
Masquerade costumes for rent. Mrs
j. L. Metcalfe, 21S Broadway.
All winter goods sold regardless of cost
at the Peoples store.
Salbury's Troubadours gave an enter
tainment at the opera house last night.
The NJ. L. S. G. had a quilting last
evening at the home of Mrs. E. S. Bar
nett.
See the beautiful line [of Holiday
Goods at the Peoples store. ,
There is talk of having the "Great Re
public" repeated under the auspices of
Abe Lincoln Post G. A. r..
Justice Abbott yesterday dismissed the
charge of malicious trespass filed against
Messrs. Denton and Cassell,
Artlc overshoes almost given away at
the Peoples store.
Coroner Connell filed a new and salts.
factory bond yesterday, signed by DR..
Pinney and R. T. Bryant.
The marshal now begins to punch up
delinquent saloon keepers who have not
paid their pop-ordiuance license.
The cold snap sent the mercury to sew
eral degrees below zero Yesterday and at
noon yesterday it was just at zero.
The heating apparatus of the Bloomer
school building does not do good enough
work to permit of regular sessions of
school, the rooms being too cold.
The young folk of the Presbyterian
church had a pleasant and novel social at
the residence of E. L. Shugart last even.
ing.
Christmas cards given away-On all
cash purchases of fifty cents and upward,
at Seaman's closing out sale, 405 Broad
way.
There were eleven homeless dodgers at
the city Jail Monday night. The demand
for sleeping room is exceeding the capac.
ity of the Jail.
The ball to be given by the paid fire
department this evening promises to be
a grand success financially, and an enjoy
able event socially.
James Mapleson was placed behind
the CRATES yesterday on the charge o.
stealing a valise belonging to a Pierce
street girl named Georgia.
George M. Smith and Martha E
Pickerell, of Wheeler's Grove, were yes.
terday granted permit to wed; also
James M. Brown, of Omaha, and Ida c.
Sylvester, of this city.
John Gibson and a man who escaped
the police yesterday INDUCED in a row
in II Broadway saloons. Gibson go'
n ear badly chawed snd the beauty o.
his face married, and was put behind the
bars.
Henry Meyer was arrested in Neolt
yesterday and brought to this city foi
trial before Justice Schurz ON q charge o
stealing a cigar case, a razor and a hand
kerchief from Chris Timme, g fellow
workman. Meyer was found guilty an,
sentenced to five days In Jail.
Henry Jones, colored, was arrested
yesterday fofstoalipg $50 from anothe
darkey named Boone. The latter claim
ed that while on a spree with Jones DC
tober T, Jones robbed him, and sine
then he haze been hunting up evidenc
until he was satisfied that he could prov
t.
Hardly a day passes without some on
having occasion to complain of the spike
left in the telegraph poles along Broad
way. One man received an un~fortunat
scratch across the cheek, a lady tore he
cloak, and so IL mishap after anothe
has occurred. 1t is time that the matte
was remedied. These spikes were evi
IDENTIFY driven into the poles for the cor
vepience of line repairers and carelessl
left after they had served their day G
usefulness.
UPSET SALE AT METCALF BROS