Omaha daily bee., 1888-02-16
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska Jotttnrs,

OF hourishing firm In Wahoo.
The Missouri Pacific has crossed the
Blue river on the way to Hastings.
A family near Grant are in a retched
| condition from effects of eating canned
beef.
The rusty bachelors of Oakland will
encourage the eligible to pop ut a BAN
quet on the 29th.
Broken Bow factions have compro-
missed on the court house question, and
! all hands are now pulling the one
| string.
A jeweler fakir with trunk load Of
brass rings and FURNISHED watches. war
ranted not to run, is doing Ainsworth
and Brown county.
The Chase county farmer who essayed
| the plowing act on ground-hog day had
both arms and one leg amputatcd to get
the frost out OF him.
| The variety, vivacity and vigor Of life
in Omaha is daily godsend to the press
| of Lincoln. 1t is the one feature of
news that illumes and enlivens their
otherwise indigestible pages.
Rev. Mallory, the ''howling cyclone
of Nebraska, is devastating the regions
| Jon fray his collar when in motion, but
his best hold is picturihg the serpen-
tine and the evils of corkscrew.
| The B. & M. surveying party operat-
ing on the proposed line to the Black
Hills, have completed the survey of u
| good route between Custer City and
Hill City, and at last accounts were
cross-sectiofing in the neighborhood Of
Fort Robinson.
| Adams county farmers say that the
| ground will he in excellent condition
this spring and as there is good reason
to believe that the chintz bugs and like
insects have been killed by the rigors
of winter, we may confidently look for
ward to good crops this year.
Charles Spinglion, an honored guest
of the Dakota City Jail, has received II
touching and tender line or more from
relatives in Germany, announcing the
death of his father and fortune of
to steer clear OF the penitentiary.
I. D; Gordon, of Custer county, while
going home with chunk Of beef on his
shoulders, was attacked by hungry
wolves and had n lively running fight
with the ''varmints." He crippled one
with kick and the pack instantly
pounced on it, giving Gordon a chance
| to increase his speed and reach home
uninjured. He saved the beef.
j. M. Shurtz, school teacher at Ra-
| VIENNA, gave free show in town re-
Gently. The show was intended to
mangle the unlaundried linen of minis
ters of the gospel. The results may be
judged from the following handbill: ~.
w. Shurtz will preach a forty-minute
sermon on the 'Rithmetic.' He will
be girded with remarkable sword, and
expects to decapitate two Methodist
/ chnr hn rr,;n hn oh
mercy. With the prospect of having
the presiding elder present, who is in
ill health at the Phenix hotel. Also, to
stab Rev. Travers under the fifth rib.
Luke-warm professors may get hurt if
they come too near. A general on
slaught will be made on them who fear
not God and obey not the gospel"
lows. Items.
Jackrabbits are becoming quite plenty
| in Iowa this winter. This is their first
appearance in the state
The Grand Army encampment at
Cedar Rapids will occur April IL and
II. The Iowa Department Sons of Vet
erans and department of WOmen's Re-
lief corps will convene at the same
time.
A negro lauhdryman at Burlington
was Mortified the other day when a
small boy entered his establishment and
asked him what it would cost to do up
half dozen collars, and few minutes
later returned with half dozen horse
collars.
Stubnose Palmer, Sioux City school
teacher, has been literally fined in
court for flogging two boys. The boys
in question took occasion to call Palmer
"Old Stub Nose" on the street. They
were not in his school, but learning
that they were in the public schools,
STRUNG his jurisdiction as broad enough
for the emergency, he visited their
building. called them out slngly. and
applied the birch in the old-fashioned
way, and paid for the satisfaction.
Two young cattle thieves, who were
incarcerated in the Sioux county Jail,
started for Anamosa last week to serve
a sentence of fourteen and one-half
months, sadder and wiser men. When
they were first imprisoned they had
800 and gold watch between them,
and finding time hanging heavily on
their hands they permitted themselves
poker, and when they left for the pen
their fellow-prisoners had the money
and they had the experience.
| Dakota.
The citizens of Sturgis have decided
that the bum element must go.
The incandescent electric light sys-
tenn is now in operation at jamestown.
Gerald Pierce, son OF the ex-governor,
is going to start creamery at Bis
marck.
A bill with an appropriation of $50, 900
has been introduced for the establish
ment of a United States assay Office at
Deadwood.
Six business men of st. Lawrence sub
scribed $500 each toward a 5000 cream
cry, the balance being made up in
smaller subscriptions.
Mitchell has dental firm styled
"Geo. =. Dix & Daughter" Miss Dix
visits several towns in the territory, and
Shy the use of gas extracts teeth with
great pains"
The tin circle OF the Harney peak has
been completed. Tin has been dlscov-
cred at Hayward. 1t has heretofore
been supposed to form belt around the
eastern, northern and western fanks
but it is now known to form a complete