Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-28
STATE AND TERRITORY.
J%ottings.

Nebraska Jottings.
Twelve divorce cases are on the docket for
the next term of court in Box Butte county.
The largest doorplate ever made in the
state was cast by the York foundry Satur-
day. 1t is SKI? feet IN size and weighs $500
pounds.
A Dawes county farmer claims to nave a
record breaker in a five-acre field which pro-
dueed PAS bushels of wheat from eight bush
els of seed.
The tower on the court house at Chadron
is nearly completed, and now the people
think that the one thing needful is a town
clock to place in it.
The third annual fair of the Hayes County
Agricultural society will be held at Hayes
Center September 4, 5 and g. 1t promises to
be the most successful yet held.
Beatrice people are kicking Because Bar
mum gives the town the go by just as he did
eight years ago. The Prettiest thinks she is
a good enough town for even the greatest
show on earth.o
On account of failing health Rev. j.
Thomas, for the past two years pastor of the
M. E. Church, at Bloomington, has temper
arily retired from the pulpit and will turn
his attention to agriculture.
Very neat invitations have been issued for
the Nebraska City bridge celebration next
Thursday. The preparations for the event
are on an immense scale and the city expects
to entertain the biggest crowd which ever
gathered within her limits. Genuine west
ern hospitality will be extended to all
corners.
The Crawford Crescent says that Quarter
master Taylor, of Fort Robinson, created
quite a stir by coming into town and saying
that the government had to have 10000
pounds of oats delivered at the post by Sat
urday noon and were willing to pay any
price. Immediately several teams started
for the country to spread the joyful news
among the farmers, who are now hauling in
all they have threshed and receiving a good,
big price therefoE.s Such spurts as this are
what make farming profitable in this part
OF the country. L.
Iowa.
Over loco entries have been made for the
state fair. 40
Peterson, Clay county, now boasts of the
only lady station, agent on the northern Iowa
branch of the Chicago and Northwestern
railway-Miss Lulu, Turner.
TIL Rex Oak Express says that during a
recent storm Hiram Cooksey got up to look
out of the door when a bolt OF lightning came
down through the house and struck the floor
within six inches of, his feet without doing
| him any injCry.Glt then passed over to
where the bed was on WHICH his wife was
sleeping and moved the bed across the room,
but did no damage except to tear things up
generally. tHf
just at present iowa is loaning the services
1 vi SOhiS " y cSou olSohSt w tio
national committee. DR.. T.. X. Hutchins,
labor commissioners, has gone east to speak
for a couple of weeks. Mr.. Dolliver, the re-
| publican nominee for congress in the Tenth
district, has gone to Maine to speak. One or
two other speakers are now in the east, or
soon will be, helping the fight in the close
states. They will return to Iowa in time for
some work before election.
The Masons of Des Moines are beginning
to make preparations to attend in large num-
bers the thirty-fifth annual convocation of
the Grand Chapter of Iowa Royal Arch
Masons which is to convene in Cedar Rapids
October 10. Grand Priest G. H. CoggsweH
with the -other grand officers expect to hold a
grand chapter school of instruction on Satur-
day and Monday prior to the convocation of
the grand chapter. The grand lecturer,
Past Grand High Priest S. S. Beare, of
Creston, will be in charge, and instruction
will be given as to the ritual of the several
degrees, and each degree will be ~eXempliied
and conferred on actual candidates.
In several localities in the state the drug
gists are declining to take out new permits
to sell liquors under the pharmacy law
passed last winter. In Black Hawk county
all the druggists have made an agreement
not to take out any more permits, and on the
expiration of their old permits, August 81,
they will sell no liquors to anybody for any
purpose, whatever. Some Of the druggists
of Des Moines have reached the same con-
clusion. The new law has such stringent
provisions that many self-respecting drug
gists say they will have nothing to do with
it. If the druggists in any locality refuse to
take out permits the supervisors may grant
a permit to one person not a druggist so that
the liquor for the necessities of the com
munity can be obtained.