Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-02
MINOR MENTION.

n. Y. Plumbing company.
Additional Council Bluffs on seventh
page.
Elegant overcoatings at y. Reitcrs,
merchant tailor. so Broadway.
Best hard and soft coal and Missouri
wood. f.. r.. Maync, 6l9 Broadway.
The chautauqua circle will meet Monday
evening at the board Of trade rooms in the
Brown building.
The Womans Christian association will
meet Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock with
Mrs. DIR. Montgomery, CPS Fourth street.
Marriage licenses were issued yesterday
TO William H. Martin, of Omaha, and Miss
Kali Young, of this city, and Andy Mahoncy,
of South Omaha, and Miss Lizzie Lcurzinger,
Of this city.
The teachers of the institution for the deaf
and dumb took days vacation FRIDAY.
They improved the opportunity of visiting
the Nebraska Institution across the river, to
note what they could of helpfulness TO their
work here.
elSen Marks, of tins city, was called upon
the other day to give quit claim decd TO
land on which Fort Sheridan, near Chicago,
is located. Mr. Marks was born there, ana
the land belonged to his father. In clearing
up the title il became necessary to secure his
signature.
The new entrance from Graham avenue to
Fairmount Park is nearly completed and
may now DC uSeu. lHC park COUlll
accompanied by Chairman Underwood, of
the board of county supervisors, drove over
the ground yesterday and found that the
change will be of immense benefit to those
visiting the park. Visitors to-day will find
the driveway excellent, the hill having been
cut down considerably and the road put in
splendid condition
Some enterprising (0 citizen has become
imbued with the idea that Bayhss park is "A
very good place in which to pasture his
cows, and accordingly turned them in there
yesterday morning. The animals apparently
enjoyed the change, but not so the citizens
in that part of the city, who Immediately
arose in their might and drove out the inter
looping bovines. 1t is hardly probable that
the move Will be repeated
The finishing touches were put on the cur
rent wires of the electric motor line yester-
day, and the foreman informed ArHE BEE
last evening that the WORK on the%vircs and
track was entirely finished. Everything in
side the power house is also ready, and as
soon as the Pullman men have completed
their work on the cars, all will be in readi-
ness for Il start, which will probably be made
inside of seventy hours.
The small pox is still confined to the two
houses previously mentioned. The Forman
house is in the extreme eastern part of the
city and the Carter residence in the western
part. There are four cases at the former
residence, all members of the Forman
family, and three cases at the latter. The
quarantine is being strictly enforced and the
disease will probably spread no farther than
the members of the two afflicted families.
Mr. Fl. G. Adds, of the Council Bluffs In
vestment company, ordered new suit of
clothes short time ago with which to pro-
tect his pOrtly frame from the chilling blasts
of winter The tailor had but one pattern
that would do, but the quantity was rather
short, so the knight of the scissors manufac-
tured the vest from another piece. "Ad''
donned the suit in time, taking pleasure in
pointing the advantages of having 1t all made
from enc piece. Finally, after wearing it
two days, friend ventured to point out the
deception, and the wearer's grief was painful
to witness. He insists that the boys brbed
the tailor and refuses to be comforted.