Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-25

mont woman, when ncttied in an argu.
ment, puts her foot down and covers the
whole ground.
Work on the Kansas City a. Omaha
road has begun at Sutton. n. Martin
has contract to grade two miles of road.
bed in the ncighborhood
Fremont proposes to head OF the Omaha
q Northwestern by building the Fremont
Central Nebraska road laid out on
paper some years ago. Fremont must be
anxious to receive an official call from
Marvin Hughitt
A Creighton prospcctor has found
slate and iron ore, ana indications of
coal on the NiJbrara He proposes to
bore down a few feet and develop the
find.
The Carter Ranch company has cstab.
lishcd large feed yards ut Richand. Col.
fax county. Nearly half mile of sheds
have been built for the entertainment of
steers
Engineer Morrison, the noted bridge
builder, is investigating the Missouri's
sandy bed and yellow banks at Nebraska
City. He is planning n bridge at that
point for the B II NJ.
The cntcrprising citizens of Exeter who
shouted loudly for n canning factory last
spring and subscribed II bonus of $4,000,
were induced by II lawyer last week to
pay their obligations.
Colonel Webster, of the Big THIRD, is
rehearsing II tender little duet entitled,
"Ollnger Here With Me- The sympa.
thies of an overwhelming majority, 10y
George, are rendered in advance.
A Grand Island grain buyer sworc IN
court that he could indentify grain stolen
from him when mixed with other varlc-
ties, and secured the conviction of the
thief This should be taken with a grain
of allowance.
A festive tiger den in the basement of
a temperance billiard hall' in Spring
field was gobbled by the town marshal
one night last week and dragged with his
keepers into court. The tail.twisterS
kicked but finally cashcd in.
Custer county is torn into a dozen
wrangling factions on the question of
division. Broken Bow, the present
county seat, is in the center of the
county, but a division into four counties
would plant it in a far off corner and
make it in fact a broken bow of promise.
The campaign is getting interesting
out in Cherry county. A candidate for
coroner refers to a rival rs that viper in
whom talent perverted reveals complex
moral putrefaCton, and whose nGuSeat-
ing eXhalations talnt heavens pure
air.
Hon. William A. Paxton, of Omaha,
has purchased 5000 acres OF land on the
south side of the Platte river, north of
OFallon, which he proposes to stock as
a mule farm. Mr.. Paxton will elevate
the tone of future democratic cOnven
tions at any cost.
Nemaha county is not as solid for her
"favorite son " rs Howe would have
the rest of the district believe. "A ship
ment of So, 600 in silver arrived in Auburn
recently to stimulate the boys in their
patriotic work. The curt-whecl dollar
will roll there on the I'd.
Grading on the Rock Island extension
into Nebraska is being pushed at a lively
cuts, the grade is finished between st.
Joe and Hebron, Thayer county. FAN
bury will be the end of the first division.
Three hundred men are laying track on
the line.
Nature has come to the rescue of pro
hibition in Blair. A well digger drilled
through forty feet of limestone and
struck a subterranean lake into which
the tools dropped Water Immediately
rose to within seven feet of the surface.
The nectar when properly mixed is an
excellent paint killer.
South Sioux City is the name of a town
laid out near Covington. The land is
owned by Father Martin, the prose
laureate of Pigeon creek, and the chances
are that corner lots above old Indian
graves will prove more profitable than
dissertations or the effect of whisky
straights on bourbon constitutions.
The ex-Rev. Tibbles and Bright
Eyes his Indian wife, talked about the
civilization of the red man in Bellevue
recently. The impression that Tibbes
had been gathered to the happy hunting
ground of his wife's relations is n mis-
take. The natural born journalist and
grasshopper suffer is waxing fat on
Uncle Sans S annuities and his lavish gift
of chin.
Sarpy county sued Jenson & Knight,
grading, contractors, for sos, the expenses
incurred by tho county in burying the
bodies of John Readon and Henry Wal
ters, killed while in the employ of the
latter, and secured judgment for the full
amount. The county has presented
similar bill to the Union Pacific for eX-
penses incurred by reason of the railroad
accident at Gilmore, and will sue if the
bill is not paid.
The b. & NJ. has let the contract for
grading eighty miles of the extension
from Curtis west to a junction with the
main line at Akron, Col, a distance of
eighty miles. John Fitzgerald, the prince
of railroad graders, has the contract.
The completion of this branch will
shorten the distance f. ON Omaha to Den
yer, anu Will uOuDllcSS De maze lnc
northern main line in connection with
the Ashland cutoff.
The fool with gun is diligently pro-
noting the upbuilding of local ceme-
terry. Out in Colfax county last week n
hired man, tirng of target-shooting,
turned his artillery on seven -year-old
BOY, son of Mr.. Black, and sent bullet
through his brain. The Hindoo custom
that compels murderer to get under
with his victim could be put in practice
here without retarding the growth of the
country.
"Tho Red Hand of O'Neill," alias Nc
Donough, candidate for SENATOR issued a
bold def" to his opponent on the stump.
He declares his readiness TO discuss the
issues of the day with any weapon that
may be convenient and loaded, and only
reserves the right TO name the datc-any
time between the 1st and 25th of Decem-
ber. He braves the terrors of n libel suit
and dcnounces his enemy as Il horse thief
with n. G. branded on the outer folds of
his ears. The unfortunate who is thus
"cornfully" held up to the lurid gaze OF
the ward workers should remember that
funeral expenses added to campaign as
sessments would bankrupt the average
purse, hence 1t is the essence of wisdom
to conduct still-hunt in the district