, 1886-06-19
NEWS NOTES.
General lettings Gathered Around
Town
Condensed for the Benefit of the
Hasty Reader.

fhe city park is receiving its finishing
touches of grading.
The Pioneer hook and ladder building
is progressing finely.
Round up No. : is reported in the vi
cinity Of Rock Greek.
Do not fail to go and see the great cir
Gus of the Sells Brothers.
A quantity of drain pipe for the Chey-
enne l. Northern has arrived.
Miss Edith Robinson's charming music
at the opera house this afternoon.
Mr.. John Dobyns has sold 1000 head
of Oregon steers to eastern parties.
Fifteen steel frogs for the Cheyenne X
Northern railroad arrived here yesterday.
A pair of blood sweating behemoths
with Sells circus-the only pair in cap
tivity.
Sells Brothers circus is not only one
show. but three-cach one of which can
not be surpassed.
The sight OF those magnificent ostrichs
with Sells Brothers circus will more than
repay the price of admission.
The brilliant pianist, Miss Edith Rob
inson, should have many admiring listen
ers this afternoon at the opera house.
The extensive and valuable machinery
introduced by Baker & johnson at the
Adams Copper King mine, will tell the
tale.
The boom derrick expected by Con-
tractor Akroyd arrived last night, and
stone cutting will begin in the depot yard
this morning.
The delay in the eastern mail last even
ing was caused by a wreckage of freight
trains this side of Papillion. A heavy
train was ditched.
A telegram was received last evening
from the quarries, stating that five car
loads of stone for the new depot would be
here Monday night.
There was a rumor on the streets last
evening that forty five head of cattle had
been killed by lightning in one bunch on
Horse creek recently.
The plasterlDg Of the ceiling Of the
office of the Inter Ocean hotel has been
torn down and will be replaced with dag
onal wood work, beaded.
The city library will be formally opened
next week. The rooms arc ta%stefully and
comfortably furnished, and the selection
of books healthy and attractive.
A sudden, strong gust Of wind yester.
day afternoon violently closed one of the
entrance doors of the drug store of Rhodes
& Troxell, completely demolishing one of
its fine plate glass windows.
Messrs. Van Brunk & Howe, the archi-
tects of our new depot, arrived in the city
last evening. They looked over the work
and were much pleased, especially with
the magnificent foundations. No such
stone as that which will support the depot
is seen beneath eastern buildings.
a cowboy belonging to Doty's outfit
wandered from round up No. l last Sun
day and did not find his way back to
camp for three days. The supposition
was that he had been thrown, or his horse
had fallen with him, and the last day of
his absence parties Of the boys secured
the hills in search of him.
Mr.. Tom Maghee, just In from round up
No. |, reports the boys at the Swan ranch
on the Chugwater. Good work is being
done. In the hills of the C~hugwater few
calves were branded, owing to a scarcity
CT female stock on those particular ranges.
On reaching the lower lands, however,
the calves began to show up in large num-
bers. The weather has been dry and
warm. No rain since Decoration day.
Grass is good and stock looking well. The
round up will last until July 10.