Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-07
MINOR MENTION.

DeS d. FNelJeT y, spring BoOuo'
Nephi is in Jail again for being drunk
The district court opens here mex
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Fogg rejoice in
new baby.
Peter Nelson was yesterday fined fol
assaulting a boy.
The Bavarian band is to give q benefit
ball at the rink tomorrow evening.
The board of trustees of the deaf ant
dumb institute meet here to-day.
Smith & Co., who have the paving o.
Oakland avenue, expect to commenced
work to-day.
Tailor Mattaz has one more bunch o.
KEYS than he has need of and is hunting
for an owner.
The ice cream parlors in connection
with the rink will be thrown open to the
public tomorrow evening.
The Congregationalists have a social al
the residence of T. j. Evans, on Oakland
avenue, CIIuay evening".
The county Jail is being used for city
prisoners while the new cement floor at
the city Jail is drying out.
The marshal has given notice for the
abominable alley south of Broadway rum
ming from Pearl TO Main streets, to be
cleaned at once.
Happy Jacks real name is said to be
Jack Hyde. He will have a hearing be-
fore Justice Schurz on a charge Of burg
larry Friday.
George Ferguson has blood in his eye
now and it will go aard with the fellow
who has poisoned his Scotch terrier and
bird dog, if George finds that fellow out.
The city authorities have got a number
Of tin signs painted to be put in alleys
and other places. They read uniquely
"Deposit No Rubbish Here. City Mar
shall"
The Bavarian band is to give an open
air concert in Bayliss park next Friday
evening If the weather permits. 1t is to
be hoped that arrangements can be made
for summer evening and Saturday after
noon concerts this season,
r. Allgood, who does not seem to be
which his name signifies, was yesterday
fined for being drunk. Officer O'Brien
run him in, despite the threats of ALL
good to hit him with a billy.
The funeral of Miss Cecilia Brown,
aged fifteen, daughter of Wiliam:Brown,
was held yesterday. She had been ill
but a few days before death ensued, the
trouble being Inflammation of the
tomach.
The city pound is getting in pretty
good shape now for COWS, dogs and
tramps. There is scarcity of tramps
now, the stone pile evidently beginning
to do its work of frightening away the
Migrants.
The articles Of incorporation of the
American District Telegraph Company,
of Council Bluffs, we're fled yesterday.
1t is claimed that the business will be put
in active operation at once. j. w. Red
erfer and others are Interested in the
enterprise.
The proceedings Of the Iowa Firemen's
association at the meeting at Waterloo in
june last, have just been published and
are being sent out to the different fire
departments in the state. Any depart
ment not receiving a copy will please
write to the recording secretary of the
association, A. l.. Tullis, Winterset,
Iowa, and q copy will be forwarded at
once.
Justice Schurz was yesterday afternoon
occupied in settling a trouble between the
Jones and Wallace families, living neal
Broadway on Nineteenth street. The
Jones boy slapped the Wallace boy
for calling him names, and the head of the
Wallace family was charged with threat
ing the little Jones girl. Both cases were
dismissed with a bit of fatherly advice
from the bench.
Capt. A. Overton on his return from a
southern trip, has brought with him a
specimen of the Iron Mountain granite
with which some of the streets of st.
Louis are being paved. 1t is q very fine
stone and is said to be even superior to
to the granite blocks being used here,
and it is thought that arrangements can
be made to lay it down here about as
cheaply as the Sioux Falls granite.
The Nonpareil timidly and modestly
suggests that it might possibly be q good
idea, perhaps, to have grass plots between
the sidewalk curbing and the street in
residence portions Of the city. Why,
bless its dear old heart, that plan was
decided upon months ago, and some Of
the avenues are already ordered thus
parked. and some Of the work has COM
menced. The old lady's timid sugges-
tions are good, but they come as usual a
little late.
The aldermen on the board of ~..equaliz-
alton have been dilly-dallying along UNI
til they have got into the usual middle.
They have only now read on tie asses
sor's book as far down the alphabet as r.
The law REQUIRES the book to be turned