The Columbus journal., 1891-03-04
NEBRASKA NOTES.

Champion precinct in Chase county,
in the valley OF the Frenchman river.
has voted bonds in the sum OF 5000 to
aid in the construction OF an %irregating
ditch.
The president has nominated James
w. Love of Fremont to he consul to San
Salvador, South America. The position
is worth, in fees and salary. $500 a
year, and the appointment is credited 10
representative Dorsey. Love is a wide
awake citizen. and will do honor to the
| republic among our southern neighbors.
The moral element Of York have been
! greatly shocked by the billing Of "A female
| minstrel show at that place. A sermon
was preached in the Methodist church
4! in which the minister denounced the
! mayor and city council for allowing the
| Autographs to be put up. Several per-
sons vent owe the city and destroyed
all the paper they could.
It's a little early, but the Merna Rec
ord opens the snake season thus: Char
ley Stults found a snake running around
his house a few days and promptly
! dispatched it. This makes four of the
unwelcOme visitors that he has killed
within Il few weeks. one Of them was
about three and a half feet long. and was
Just in the act of %springing Oh his wife
when discovered"
The Buffalo county committee or relief
of destitute farmers has not quite fin
ished the apportionment. Of about BIN
applications, 100 have been rejected AZ
not in need of help. Those whose appli
cations were accepted will receive about
1890 worth Of seed. tine amOun varying
according to the size OF the family ant
the need. All the seed except potatoe:
will be bought in the county.
A young lady was expelled from tn
high school in this city this week. TO
slapping a young ill-tred cub Of Il DO.
in the face, who sat in the seat benin,
her, and amused himself by proddin!
her lii the back of the neck with a Leaf
pencil and pulling her hair. The cU'
lacked the gallantry to acknowledge hi
fault and the young lady was too higl
spirited to inform on him. hence he
punishment. The young lady has beel
reinstated, Observation-Disclosures indie
pendent.
,, The mammoth mine disaster in Penn
s~ylvania has developed the fact that tn
west holds a large number OF men VIII
are in search of wives and who are desi
rous of wedding dependent widows o
dead miners. David Bremen Of Madison
county, writes the master workman tina
he is a widower, aged fifty-two, and
well-to-do farmer with 16O acres of LAM
and two children. He writes: Il an
willing and would lie pleased to accep
and provide for some One If we can agree
Would prefer one thirty five or fort.
years of age and would not like n will
too large a family, born in this country
Would like neat and Industrious house
keeper, willing to do her share to maxi
a happy homo and who would be salts
fed to come west"
The following letter explains itsell
and is only another testimonial TO tn
goodness Of heart of the man who wa
recently arrested here on the charge O
wife murder, and discharged from Gus
tody by Judge Post because there wa
no evidence against him. The letter
from a brother Of Mrs. Cowles who live
at North Loup:
S. B.-morning Of the 24th-LunI
l tried friend and brother for more thai
twenty long years: We have heard ther
are some circumstances against you. an
mother. AIDA and / have said man
times that We never saw a man as kim
) and attentive to a wife as you have beer
Sister Clara and others have made llk
remarks. We know, too, that you hav
never spared pains or money to prOcnr
doctors assistance in the hour OF sick
ness, and have cared for with never tire
l ing patience, and more than all this,
/ you had wanted to kill her you cOul
have done it in a much easier wa!
2 When she had those sinking spells tina
= she was subject to, that we know OF, yo
= could have let her 90 instead OF usin
restOratiyes to bring her to conscious
ness. 1t is perfectly prepOsterOus 10
any one that is as well acquainted wit
You AS we are to think for one mOmen
y that yon are the guilty party.
X. G. APPLEGARTH.