Omaha daily bee., 1885-07-18
MINOR MENTION.

M. w. Ivory has secured the posIHaS
tership of Glenwood.
This afternoon the park commissioner'
and other citizens inspect Island park.
The Episcopal ladies give social dane
ing party In the Masonic hall Monday
night.
Foster & Brother have got the largest
street lamp in the city, and it was put ir
place yesterday.
Permit to we'd has been granted Mar
Gus and Henrietta Altschuler, both ol
Omaha.
The Council Bluffs red stockings will
play the Weston club at Weston to-
morrow.
Snyder & Lssman, the commission
merchants, are out In new, bright city
delivery wagon.
The water works company Is laying a
main on avenue E, from Oakland avenue
to Market street.
10. Anderson is preparing to build q
fine residence at the corner of avenue I
and Market street.
The board of education meets Monday
night to elect some one to fill the vacancy
In the corps of high school teachers.
Mgs. DIR. @. Fl. Plnney entertained a
number of her lady friends last evening
at her residence, No. 212 Pearl street.
The Rev. Bartlett Foskett, of Red
Oak, will preach In the Baptist church
tomorrow morning and evening. All
cordially invited.
James T. Bryne and Miss Rosa F.
Scholer, of Omaha, have been made
happy, the ceremony being performed by
Justice Hendricks.
The firm of Mynnter & Adams has dis.
solved, and Col. John Lindt has taken
the place of Mr.. Adams, but the latter
retains the old law Office.
John Coyle has had four Of the Muir
ply family arrested for stealing his dog,
valued by him at 500. The case will be
heard before Justice Hendricks one week
from to-day.
Attorney Frank Shinn has succeed In
recovering from the managers of the
Giles circus the $3.50 of which Mr.. Dun
ham, of Carson, was robbed by one of
the attaches of the show.
The judicial contest between Judges
Aylesworth and Loofbourow Is to be de-
oided to-day at Des Moines-perhaps.
There seems to be as much uncertainty as
to when the decision will be made, as to
how.
The Baptist church seems to be pros
perlng greatly under the pastorate OF the
Rev. DIR. Cooley, there having been re-
oeived into the church thirty-fve new
members since the first of May, the time
when he entered upon his work.
There will be meeting in Spiritual
hall, Reno's block, tomorrow afternoon
at 2 o'clock in memory of Mrs. Ellenor
Hill, who recently passed to spirit life.
Appropriate addresses will be made by
Mr.. Kempster and others.
The cemetery may be unhealthy on
account of the gases which arise and the
water which flows, but 1t seems from the
number of people that frequent the
grounds on Sundays that there good
many who are willing to risk 1t.
81. A Stoddard has been appointed as
special agent and local solicitor of the
western branch of the Hartford Life
and Annuity insurance company, of |
Hartford, Conn.,, and will be located at |
No. % Pearl street, In the Office with |
Wells Cook, the general agent at large. |
William Forrest Patton. one of the po-
litical triplets, has been appointed to the
responsible and lucrative position of dep
uty city weighmaster, and during the alb
sence of his superior officer will look af-
ter the business and take complete
control.
Mary T. Hoist asks for divorce from
her husband, l.. j. A. Hoist, to whom
she was married In this city In Novem.
Der, 1879, she claiming that he has been
untrue to her, and as result she has
suffered horribly physically. as well as
mentally.
The Union Pacific train was delayed
yesterday morning, the cause being the
burning OF snow shed west of |
Granger, and an accident this side of
there, the drive.wheel of an engine
breaking and the engineer being SO
badly injured that 1t is thought he can.
not live.
The talk about the cemetery breeding
disease and death calls forth the fact
that the same trustees who were elected
in 1861 still hold their offices, and seem
to be very vigorous men, despite the fact
that they have had charge Of such Gem
etery for about twenty-five years. The
board consists now, as In 1861, of Horace
Everett, j. Nj. Phillips, j. p. Caradv