Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-01
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska Jottings.


The two brass bands at Leigh have con.
solidaJod in the interests Of harmony.
The Nemaha county democrats win nomi.
nato ticket at Auburn next Saturday.
Three children and several dogs were bit.
ten by supposedly rabid canine at ST Paul
Saturday.
Mrs Brusha. mother of the B. e. NJ. agent
ut Wilcox, was fatally injured in a runaway
accident Sunday.
Tho street commission OF Beatrice has Of
fered TO cart away the dirt If the citizens
will sweep the pavcments each Friday.
Cedar Rapids is to have a new cemetery
with square for the Grand Army where
monument will be erected dedicated to the
old soldiers.
The Buffalo county agricultural society is
| in deot and there is talk of selling the fair
grounds and purchasing new and cheaper
| quarters further from the center of Kearuey.
An aged citi2cn of OgallNla, named A, p.
| Curtis started out with rope to hang him
self and had written farewell note, az die
| to please others," when he was discovered
| and prevented from carrying ont his design,
| He is supposed to have been driven insane by
family troubles.
| There is q great howl among the repub-
| hcans of Sioux county over the action of the
| county central committee IN deciding not to
call n simOn-pure republican convention. AS
a consequence sovenN-seveu republican
! voters have signed u call for mass conven
| tion to make nominations.
A little girl, bound from some point in
| Kansas TO Linscott, this state, fell from her
| scat in the BURLINGTON train in a dead faint.
| When rcsusCitatcd the passengers asCer-
| tanned that she had not tasted food since she
| began her Journey, and the travelling men on
| the train purchased her a meal and collected
| Il purse of SIS and presented it to her.
| Says the Logan County Pioneer: The pres
| ent acreage aud prospective yield of corn is
| the largest in the history of this county. 1t
| is a problem among our farmers what to do
| with the mammoth corn crop, and as a solu-
| ton Of this problem they are securing all the
| hogs possible. THIS demand for pOrkers has
| raised the price away ABOVE their actual
| worth
The first Saturday in October will be
| great mule trading day in Ashland, the farm
| ers in that vicinity having agreed 10 bring
| all their mules to town for the purpose of eX-
| changing and selling animals for pairing pur-
| poses When well-mated pair is found the
| owner will bid after the following style: y
] offers Is, say SIS for his mule. If Is doesn't
| want TO take that sum, he offers A S66 for
his The bidding will be continued in this
| manner until one is satisfied to sell.
Says. the Western Wave: Il. r. Gibble
| thinks that he is able to demonstrate how
| corn will grow in Saline county. He has in
| front of his meat market stalk of corn that
| grew on n patch where ne dug potatoes last
| June. The stalk is about five feet high and
| has on it seven corn shoots, all except one
| having corn. Three of them are of good size
| and are well filed Considering the fact
| that il was the second crop for this year and
| that this early IN the fail there were three
! good ears so near maturity is something re-
| markable and could happen in no state out
| side of Nebraska.