The Columbus journal., 1896-05-13

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! We begin this summary with Tn
JOURNAL Of April n 1877. and Gloss
With Nay 8 1877:
The total valuation Of property il
Platte county 1as 4ly8l3jal.
l. n Beebs lost his dwelling HOUSE
BY 6re April a; estimated los S00
Tu JOURxAL advocatss better pro.
lection against fre-an engine and large
cisterna
A son Of Samuel Hummer Wa in
stantly killed BY lightning April .,
while bringing in some cattle.
April g, . freah crater opened in We
suviua. Ashes and lava threaten the
villages On the mountain side.
Wells have again proved inefficient In
case Of fire, At Fremont. Nothing but
large, vell-fIlsd cisterns will answer the
purpose.
Mr.. Runners store to De occupied by
Mr.. Morrissey Is q dry goods store, is in
line on Eleventh street. four doors east
of TIE JOURNAL Office.
We are all s~culptors and painters, and
our material Is our own fiesh and blood
and bones- Any nobleness begins At
onc to refine a mans features, any
msanneas or sensuality to imbruts them.
1Thoreau.
George Hulst and II. P. Coohdgs,
Platte county delegates to the republi-
can state convention, we're unanimously
instructed to favor only such men as
would vote for the nomination Of Grant
for president.
Buffalo Bill" at the head OF Q COM
pany Of troops traced the Indians who
lately committed dspredations neal
North Platte, and succeeded in killing
four Of them and rstaking two Of the
stolen horses.
The editor in a political article says:
The people rule, and when they issue
their mandate by the ballot it should be
known that their expressed will must
be held as Law, enforced al law and ac-
quiesced in as law
Walter Craig Of Cadz, o., arrived
here April ., and started for the Town.
ship the next morning. Mr.. Craig and
Ephraim Clark were owners Of the
southwestern township, Sc sections, In
Stanton county. Mr.. Clark died several
years ago. Mr.. Craig is still living
A bit Of dog Latin is among the Sc
lections, beginning:
The nox vas Lit by lux of Luna,
And twas nox most oppor,Una
To catch q pOssum or a coona;
For nix was scattered DER this mundus,
A shallow nix, en- non profundus.
On sic a nox with CAMS 0nus,
Two boys ven, oat Ia hunt for coonus."
The soldiers homestead Law, approved
April 4, is Ito enable honorably dis
soldiers and sailors, their
widows and orphan children, to acquire
on the public lands of the
United States and under that benign
measure the west has had a wonderful
development.
Prof. Au&hey OF the state university
has just published a paper on the la
,ustrine deposits Of Nebraska. in which
be claims it one Of the richest soils in
the world-the settings which took
place beneath a great lake covering most
Of the surface and draining of after long
ages through the Missouri river. cutting
down through the bluffs and exposing
il places a made soil of two hundred
Ieet.
From the report OF Chas. A. Speice,
superintendent of public in
struction, to the state superintendent,
! number OF items are now of interest.
There we're II districts in the county. |
IN aggregate Of "a children of school
lge; the smallest district had I'D pupils,
he largest III; there was one adobe
school house, two log. and twelve frame
The total value of school
houses and sites was SS6l4.9I. The
names Of qualified teachers employed
the year were: Mary Weaver,
sarah J. Kent, Apphia j. Avery, Sarah
Blodgett, Elizabeth McGath, Rosa
rschudin, Anna A. Kelley, Mary Nc
Mary Lawrence. Emily Jackson,
Charles W. Stuart, S. L. Barrett. Benz. |
Spielman, James Lynch. George ".
Allen Jillson, VIM. Prescott.
James B. Bell, Ed. Bartlett, John g.
Routson, F. W. Ellis, Thos- Douglas,
Frank b. Mclaughlin and E. A. Blod-