Omaha daily bee., 1889-04-26
STATE JOTTlNGS.

Butler county has voted $4,000 in bonds
for q new court house.
South Beatrice will enjoy the luxury OF
street cars in sixty days.
Ice cream sociables are ripeniug but tho
cucumber Is several cramps behind.
Kearney's city hail bonds sold for e6,f.
They draw per cent and are due in twenty
years.
Wolf scalps are worth 81 Of Otoe county's
com, and hunters are pelting the treasurer
at lively rate.
North Platte wants base ball club APP
plicatons should be accompanied with pho.
tographs in uniform.
Nebraska City already feels the great
benefits arising from her park system. The
trees make splendid htching posts.
Vendors of red liquor and foaming collars
are required to pay an occupation tax in
Springfield, in addition to the regular
license
Plattsmouth is moving for electric street
railways. The venerable capital OF Cass
county is displaying uncommon enterprise
and push this year.
Mad dog scares are blooming in various
sections of the state n poultice of oak
tanned sole, vigorously applied, will Danish
the fright in short order.
The Nebraska City grand jury toyed with
the case of burglar for four days, and sue.
ceeded in returning an indictment several
hours after the crook had flown.
The st. Paul postoflice has been decorated
with a handsome and artistic Ed Chinn.
Samples can be had at all hours. The post
master is determined to please his patrons.
A quartette of young and oeardless scaven-
gers have been hauled into court in Fremont
for printing and circulating an obscene poem.
They were placed under bond and bound
over to the district court.
The Rev. Sam Small win lead triumphal
procession "F'rom the Bar-room to the Pull
pitt in Lincoln next month 1t is presumed
that Sam has arranged to secure supply of
inspiration at the starting point
A simple decree of divorce in Nebraska
City deprived a Bishop of rank, emoluments
and staff at one sitting Of the court. 1t was
great relief to the wife of Dr. Hoyt q.
Bishop. She took her maiden name.
The Daily Telegram is the latest journal
istic venture in Columbus. II is neat and
compact specimen of Typography, spirited in
editorial and lively and crisp in its news
columns. ID. +. DAVIS is the publisher.
Columbus cries out against the nude in
dramatic art. A bevy of raw and wrinkled
Amazons disported on the stage there re-
Gently and actually shocked the journal
man. They must have been frightfully
tough.
The waterworks company of York has
rescued its plant from the auction block, and
Adams ale again flows unchecked py me-
chanics' liens. York is pioneer among pro-
hibition towns, and water must be had at
any price.
Plattsmouth will dig up the hatchet on the
3Oth and apostrophize the virtues of the
cherry tree chopper After the ceremonies
it is proposed to present the hatchet to a
prominent Burlington official, accompanied
by sketch of the long promised depot.
Norfolk reioices over the certainty of q
new railroad Thirty thousand dollars in
bonds have been voted to the builders, and
surveyors have already been turned loose on
the road to Yankton. The construction of
this line is likely to force the Omaha g. ST.
Paul company to cover the gap between
Harrington and Yankton this season.
The financial hackers of the Fremont can
ming factory propose to clip the wings Of A.
Bird, of Plattsmouth. They have decided to
shut off the wherewith until the soaring gen.
tleman descends from his lofty perch and
fulfills his contract. Five hundred dollars
in hand is worth several birds in the bush.
Mrs. A. Zelner,a Michigan woman, tracked
her faithleSs spouse to the wilds of Platte
county, last week, and found him cavorting
with the affections of tickle female. The
scene which followed can be pictured by the
imagination. The interesting fact is cheer
fully chroncled that Zelner was yanked by
ehe back hair and toted home at railroad
speed. The game was not worth the effort.
The howls of returning Oklahoma pilgrims
are rising above the hum of busy life in
various sections of the state. They bring
with them wholesome regard for Nebraska
soil and climate, and disgust for the red
crusted land of the boomers. Experience
costs money. The amount squandered in
the wild rush to Indian Territory would Sc
cure farms in Nebraska superior in every
respect.
"Misfortures never come singly but in
droves." The new postmaster of Spring.
field, Sarpy county, had scarcely become ac-
quainued with his duties when some heart
less rascal abducted the family COW. The
Monitor tells that on top of this application
came the Springfield Glee club, primed for
serenade and with appettes yard long.
There are depths of grief which can not be
ruffled by ordinary sympathy 1t is suf-
cient for the p. In. to know that the public
feel for him.
The Fremont boomers C. the oil regions
have commissioned an agent to purchase
hosting works and pipes for the Wyoming
Oil and Pipe Line company. A number Of
Omaha capitalists interested in the lubricat-
ing fluid propose to Join with the Fremouters
in building pipe line from the oil fields
through the state, and the enthusiastic sup
porters of the scheme are confident that the
work will be completed in two years. The
undertaking is mast important one. 1t has
has been agitated for the past few years,
but nothing definite has been accomplished.
The construction of pipe line would solve
the fuel problem for Omaha and eastern Ne
braska and return handsome profits to the
owners,