Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1885-12-19
NEBRASKA


Chadron will send q committee to Washing
ton this winter to lobby for a land office.
The brick smoke-stack OF the Nebraska City
di~stillery vent down in the gale Friday.
Weeping Water is moving for a canning
factory. A stock company is to be organized.
Q linn Bohansn will hold mis- last reception
on the 18th OF January. Sheriff Wash Mccall
lbm will oficiate as usher.
The gas found recently near Long Pine IL
supposed to have been secreted there by their
couuty seat winners in 1854.
Mike Conley, a n F. f. Il NJ. V. brakeman,
had two of his fingers amputated while coup
ling cars at Ainsworth recently.
Ainsworth Is crying for a court
house and water-works, with al occasional
Sigh foi a division station or another rail
road.
Chunks OF coal from the Porter mine, near
Ponca, have been tested aud found To urn
freely. The vein is said 10 be an extensive
aud valuable one.
A marriage Of 50 long haired son Of Toip
was 81 recent social sveot In Plattsm0uth. The
short haired mos OF the same sire stu reyel
In single bleesfulnese.
A gas well has bean struck In the neighbor
hood Of Long Pine, with indications OF oil in
the distance. This furnishes a theoretical
basis for the recent blow.
Mss Dlshner, the Rip Van Wrinkle of Platte
county, has passed the fortieth day Of her nap.
She grows fat on milk and wine, and Is having
a restful good tiHe OF it.
The GIaud Army at Creighton las, week
buried a horse that went through Sherman.
march to the sea. The h rse Was cap.ur.d ri
Vicksburg, and was 80 years old.
j. A. Common, OF Plattsmouth, has purchased
the 400acre farm Of w. II. Deeriue, in Douglas
county. The land Is five miles from Omaha
and will soon be turned into city lots.
McDonaugh, a prisoner In the Plumb Creek
jail, attempted 10 carve his way to freedom,
but was nabbed while unhiueing tie front
door. He is now caressiug the solitary.
NJ. B. Mcbride and wife Of Fullerton mar
rowly escaped sutfocation by coal gas on the
night of the Goth. 1t took the doctors several
hours to restore them TO consciousness.
Chadron continues tho r%ustling town of
northwest Nebraska. The extension OF the
railroad to Buffalo Gap, thirty. Ave miles
north, served to increase the business OF the
town.
Since the publication OF Quinn Bob suan's
essay on 1.-THE Elasticity OF Hemp, or the
Mechanism Of a G Allows" North Beud claims
that town.
A wild, wayward Seward girl, daughter Of
resp, ctable parents, was sent 10 the reform
school last week. S:veral hair-nrained youu.
men in the neighborhood should be made TO
keep her company.
Charlie Brown cut of the tails of two nne
horses belonging TO the Rev. Woods, IN Te-
cumseh, and is nov brood.ng in the local ilil
on the amount Of energy a bobtailed requires
to fan a sSecter in fly time.
w. Il Wilson agree TO put up and operate
a packing house In Fremont, 10 cost SIS goo,
conditional that a subscription Of $4,000 is
given him. A committee of the board Of
trade is passing round the hat.
Mr.. Mccormack Of Oxford, has in his pos
session "A fancy bead.worked watch pocket
"hlch was picked up on The battle field of
Shiloh the next day after the lltht. The old
gentleman prizes it very highly.
The farmers Of Buff lo county have De Jared
war on the grain buyers OF Kca,Dey, aud pro-
pose to boycott the elevator syndicate. Many
farmers are hauling their grain % Grand Is
land, where better prices are obtained.
Woman's rights, on a practical and profit
able ecale, are being carried out In this state.
s ~ati~tics show that out of S 81 school teach
ers in the state 4 eco OF them are women, and
thirteen county supe~rintendents are OF The
fair sex.
The anous Maxey Cobb cases In Slrpy
county, in which Hon. A. j. Poppleton sued
tor the recovery Of a horse, have been settled
10 the satisfaction Of that gentleman, and he
mas iuvited both plaintiff and defendants to q
big Christmas dinner.
Sarpy c~ounty's treasury Is just aching for
the completion Of the Missouri Pacific and the
Ashland cutoff OF the B.. & NJ. The county
now receives Sll 600 in taxes from the rail-
roads, ard expects to double the sum on the
cnmpletion OF the new roads.
A family OF eight persons living near
Stromsburg were seriously poisoned with
arsenic Thanksgiving day. The poison was
mixed with bs ing powder and used in max
ing bread for the family dinner. A doctor ar
rived In time to pump them dry.
Plattsmouth boasts Of q brindle COW with as
much Intelligence as a losfer and q dis.
eliminating sense OF q good thing on q cold
day. A bonfire II a fesst for her, and when
en- is found she backs up TO 1t contented,
chews her cud and fans the smoke With her
tai.
Joseph A.. Osdes, a farmer living ten miles
northeast of Lincoln, suicided by cutting his
throat with q razor. Oades was a widower, As
years old, and leaves two sons and two
daughters, all grown. For some years past be
has suffered with st. vitus' dance, and brood
ing over his sflic ion is supposed to have
driven him crazy. He was a wealthy and re-
spected citizen.
A dramatic critic in Hastings refers TO a re-
cent performance there OF "Galetea" es 'lige
a strain OF music that floats aud throbs at twi-
light, and sinks away into the dim reaches OF
which we dream, but I'm which we cannot walk;