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-, t"V- -T - "rf w tl THE OMAHA BEE OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY. TO ceRRESPOSDKjrrs. Wx so sot desire any contributions whaterer of literary or poetical character; and ire will sot undertake to preserre, or to return fee ,! any eaae whaterer. Oar Sufi U snfideatly large to more than supply oar limit! apmoa In that direction. XilXaxz or Wiim, In fall, mast In each and arery eaaa accompany any communica tion ol what nature soeTer. Thi la not In tended lor publication, but for ear own satis faction and as proof of good faith. Ocx Oouvtxt FXIXXD3 we will always be pUased to hear from, on all matters connected with crops, eeuntry politics, and on any sab Met whaterer of general interest to the peo ple of ux State. Any Information connect ed with the election, and relating to floods, aecUesU.ete.,wUlbe gladly rewired. All (och cemmunlf Ttloos, howeTer, must be rief aapoatihle; and tey mast. In all cases, wriUan upon one side of the sheet only. rouTxcai. 411, A0V2rcxsf khts ol candidates for office wbether made by self or friends, and whether as notices or communications to the Editor, are (until nominations are made) tiuply personal, and will be charged as ad vertisements. All communications should be addrcned to t 206EWATEK, Editor and Publisher, Draw- jfoncK. fa and aller October twenty-first, 1872, the ity circulation of the Daily Bee is assumed t Mr. Edwin DstIs, to whose order all xub srriptions not paid at the office will be payable. sad by whom all receipts for subscriptions will be countersigned. E. KOSEWATEB, Publisher Why cannot Omaha have a tannery just as -well as Lincoln, and -why should Omaha dealers import plows from Nebraska City? It becomes self-evident to every intelligent observer that our salva tion as a metropolis must be sought through manufacturing. This may be accomplished by co-operation among our capitalists and business men, and by offering inducements to outside capitalists. A co-operative manufacturing society need not, however, be organized on the political dark-lantern principle in augurated by Johnson, Dudley & Co., but should be managed like all other legitimate enterprises. Such a company now exists at Council Bluffs and can readily be or ganized in Omaha. "With Rock Springs coal at eight dollars per ton, a very material advantage is alrea dy secured, and if the Omaha and .Northwestern oould be induced to push their road to Sioux City, wo should soon solve the cheap lumber problem. Just now, while trade is dull, this subject should be taken in hand by practical men, and no effbrt jbjiould be spared to induce capitalists to Jtrvest n our manufac turing industries. The "WbodhuU will be in her glo ry if her version of the Tilton Beecher scandal shall prove true. What has become of the petition that has recently been circulating among the property owners ou Farnham and Douglas streets in favor of uniform sidewalks. Accordixo to the Sioux City Journal General .Forsythe and Lieut CoL Fred Grant, of General Sheridan's staff, left Bismarck for Fort Lincoln, where they intend to join General Custar's Black Hills expedition, which was to march on the 25th. General Sheridax is expected at Denver, and the Denverites want him to organize a RocKy Mountain Department, covering Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico, with headquarters at Denver. If Gen eral Sheridan shall carry out this programme, Denver Is willing to let him establish his own headquarters either at Omaha or Leaverworth. The Independent movement in Illinois has already proved an un mitigated fizzle. A congressional convention met at Springfield last Friday, for the purpose of putting a candidate in the field for that con gressional district Only about one sixth of the district was represented, and the convention was forced to ad journ, without making a nomina tion. This would indicate that the Illinois Grancers are taking no ac tive interest in the Independent movement ebetore it has been customary for public officers to take certificates f to Interfere with their growing. -rLohtertrom their suneri-M Lowell Register. of good character from their super! ore, but that custom has just been reversed by Postmaster general Cres well. That retiring public function ary has just issued a certificate of good character to President Grant. Mr. Creswell assures all whom it may concern, that ho was never hampered by the President In the government of his department Accrding to Creswell, General Grant's poVsr of command Is won derful, and his quiet Influence over me n simply astounding. This is indeed a remarkable discovery, And goes to show that we may learn something new everj- day. The editor of the Loup City News, who, if we are correctly informed, is Master of a Grange, does not pro pose to inaugurate political reform through a third party. Referring to the new departure he says "there is no reason why a staunch Republican paper should not remain faithful to that party which has preserved in tact our nationality, and at the same time advocate zealously the interest of the farmer and the labor ing classes." '.Ill !.. J.,. I When our citizens defeated the market house and water works pro jects they did not know that thoy wero committing a suicidal blun der. Had these projects been car ried through, Omaoa would to-day be In an entirely different condition. Farmers who are now selling and purchasing at Fremont, Ashland, and Blair, would have made Omaha their Trading place. Mechanics and laborers who to-day are unable to pay their board or grooery bills, would have been employed at good wages. New brooms generally sweep clean. General Bristow, the new Secretary of the Treasury, has de elded to relieve one hundred over worked treasury clerks from their onerous duties, which will also re lieve the taxpayers from contribu ting to their support- NEBRASKA CEOP NOTES. Corn ia three feet high. North Platte Enterprise. Harvesting will, we think, com mence this week. Brownville Ad vertiser. Our crop of hay will surpass that of any other season for many years. Nemaha Granger. Crops are looking their best no grasshoppers, no drouth, no nothing, WIAT OMAHA MUST SO. Omaha is beginning to learn what she ought to have Jearncd long ago, that merchants and money chang gcr never build up a large city. We must furnish constant and remuner ative employment for working men If we want to beconle a great com mercial centre. This can only be done by the establishment of man ufactures. The Omaha Smelting Works employ more workingmen than do 'all our wholesale houses; And Simpson's carriage factory puts morononey In circulation than do all the Banks in Omaha. Unless Omab5 can become a man ufacturiBg centre, se must resign hr claims to supremacy. At no time in her history has this fact opportunity to pocket rolls of bank . - a. -it A - Vkt 1 la . if" tnsvsiln TAiiHtnl oeen more apparent tuun just now. Potatoes hereabouts arc not so much injured by the potato bugs, as they have been in former years. Columbus Journal. The recent rain and hail storms have somewhat injured the wheat and corn crops and garden stuff' in these parts. Boone County .News. Corn is reported as damaged somewhat by the recent wind and rain storms. We are glad to know that the damage Is but alight, and confined to a small portion of country. Oakdale (Antelope Co.) Journal. In all parts of the vallej', crops are looking elegant. Wheat is headed out, and corn is growing rapidly. This year's crops will prove that we have an agricultural district, inferior to no other in the State. xoup City News. Mr. Ephrlam Duby brought Into our office on Monday, a bunch of fall wheat almost ripe for the sickle. He expects to commence cutting this week, and from this sample in our possession, the yield will ap proximate twenty bushels ner acre. Pawnee Republican. The prospect for a bountiful har vest is quite flattering. Wheat harvest will commence in about six weeks; coin looks well, and is growing finely, notwithstanding it hasn't been worked. Sutton (Clay Co.) Times. Farmers will probably commence their barley harvest this week, and will begin taking in their flax in a few days. Barley and wheat prom ises a splendid yield, never better, and flax will rive the farmers an Our wholesale houses are doing a very fair business, but our retail trade is almost prostrated. Some of our infiatlea financiers would ascribe the wast of currency as the chief cause of this stagnation, but the Bee traces it to a want of employ ment If Omaha could furnish every idle mechanic and laborer now in our midst steady employment at reasonable wages there would be a plenty of currency in circulation. The chief obstacle In our way to-day is not so mock the w&nt of cheap fuel and cheap lumber, 'but the want of confidence in manufactur ing enterprises among our capital ists. Many of them still prefer to Vliak their Ossesjas in wild cat mining rlaisTin and earner lots in imaginary towns, butFe-imagiue it would not be very dfeBcalt' to convince some of them that their money would have hMB more prof tably invested in a woolen mill r atarch 'factory. If aybody has nay doubts, about the profits of manufacturing in Omaha, let Hiaa inquire at outfoandrics, waejoB shopeoH mill Mtdhaoap fac tories. vet7jBMuneKingenter yriae isadertteTn-herejey practical , with the neceooary atpital has. J T.jwumsb. Lraauia nas, I awayjMAay valu- ppertaaities to become h ' eeater, while Lin- 9 Ifehnaka, City,Platts7 CfcttMU Ruts, Fremotitfand towns have beea-mak- i tMt Jtrectkwr hills. Lincoln Journal. Wheat md other grain in this count- continue to grow finely and promise a large and early harvest No grasshoppers, potatoorvine bugs have yet made their appearance in this vicinity. Our farmers are be ginning to get ready for harvest Lone Tree Courier. Prospects are fair for an un usually earlj' harvest. Although the spring was late, the copious showers of the season have Induced a very rapid growth of all vegeta tion, and it is probable that many field of spring wheat will be cut by July 5th. Beatrice Express. Spring, wheat promises to be an average crop while in many In stances it is decidedly ahead of last year. The amount of breaking per formed around us this season fully quadruples all former efforts. Pota to bugs are on a visit to the early variety. Fairmont, (Fillmore Co.) Bulletin. 'A ride of seven or eight miles on the Fremont road the other day, convinces us that the prospects for a large crop or wneat are very good. Corn is not so far ahead as it some- timea k at this time in the season, but looks fresh and healthy. Barley is headed out, and is just changing from .green to yellow, warning the farmer that the harvest is not far off. West Point Republican. We are Informed that the yocntr neach -orchard on the Culver farm ltelyjKttgut for the Agricultural C&segefrow 'present indications wih yield forty or fifty bushels "Of peachy this year. Sew! otbfr small orchards in the name losallty hew is sotae encwrMtmwfit to .-rieeelsiJaayaaL The fields and farms everywhere look fine. The fruit crop of Cass County this year will be enormous, unless some untoward accident oc curs to the trees after this writing. The heavy rains early in June de layed the corn somewhat, farmers not being able to plow for the wet, the weeds set up a monopoly in some places but It is all right now. Tlattsmouth Herald. Wheat, oats, corn, potatoes, etc., continue to flourish well. The pes tiferous bug is going for the potato vines in solid phalanx, but is gen erally strictly watched and murder ed instanter. Gardens look well, and radishes, lettuce, peas and new potatoes are abundant We surely will have a fine crop of small grain, and a very large breadth has been sown. Wild grapes, plums and cur rants are plentiful. Republican Valley. Wheat looks well, and farmers say there will not be as many bush els to the acre as there was last year, but they say it will be of better quality. Harvesting will commence in about three weeks. Corn looks well and is now growing finely, the late rains giving It a new start We noticed fields that were already too high to cultivate. . One farmer told us ne tuougnc mere wouia be no trouble in bringing corn down to 10 or 15 cents per bushel this fall, such would be the supply. Graud Is land Times, 0 All along the course of the Wa hoo, corn and wheat fields were sub merged, causing a great destruction of large and promising crops. The Cottonwood and other tributaries of the Wahoo alw overflowed at many places; about ten miles northwest of town an unusually large area of the low lands was covered with water. The rajn was very bad on corn in low sod, but on tne high land it will not injure it in the least It is estimated that no less than six thousand acres of corn and wheat, in this county, were de stroyed by overflows. In some places the ground was covered to the depth of eight feet. In very few places were any traces of the crops left remaining. Saunders Republican, Wheat is looking well, and more of It was sown this year than before. Oats are good, with about the usual average. Corn is looking better than usual at'this time of the year, with about the samo amount planted. Potatoes are looking well, and about double the average of lost year, rue potato nugs came in great numbers the first of theseason, but have been so thoroughly picked that they are less in number than people supposed they would bo. The grasshoppers are doing some damage to the small grain on the outsldes, but not of any account, only in the gardens, which they have mostly destroyed. Some of the early hoppers are getting wings, and are preparing to leave. Burto nian. Wo boar somo talk about cutting some of the early sown wheat next week, and considerable barley will be ready bj that time. Those that have tried flax are in high glee over the present condition of it, and are fully confident that it will prove a success. Corn looks healthy and rank, although some fields are a little late, they now show evi dence of a thrifty and rapid growth. The potato crop so far, is ver3r promising. But few bugs have male their appearance, we are told, and these are doing but little damage. Early potatoes are nearly out of the way now, and the late ones are growing rapidly. Hebron (Thayer Co.) Journal. Corn has a fine healthy color; stands about two feet high, and of even growth and Is gaining every day. Wheat looks splendid; just com mencing to bloom; straw will prob ably be short but promises to head well, and nothing but hail or rust can prevent a good crop. Oats, like wheat, is rather short; the dry weather, a few weeks ago injured it a little, but a good crop is promised; the amount sown how ever is not so great as in former years, owing to the scarcity of seed. Flax looks nice; straw will be short, but the stools are heavier than last year more stems from a single seed, and the stand is good, with a prospeot of a heavy crop of grain. Barley and rye are well advanced and indicate a good crop. Barley Is almost ready for the sickle. Potatoes look better than for years. Bugs were disposed to favor a few patches with their attentions, but have about abandoned the work. The diet Paris green not being very palatable to them. We may safely count on a good crop of pota toes. Prospects for grain of every kind were never better, and our farmers look happy as kings, while mer chants, mechanics and every class of human beings wear a cheerful look. Schuyler Register. STATE JOTTINGS. KILLED BY UGHTNING. North Platte has a string band. Oakdale is still improving. Work on the Grand island ele vator will be commenced shortly. Loup City is to be re-enforced by two brick dwelling houses. Columbus had a gala week with the Georgia excursionists. A portion of the Georgia ex cursionists visited Grand Island. Columbus had a 52,000 fire last week. Crete has repealed her fire or dinance. Lincoln is to have a $15,000 plow factory. The Platte bridge at Schuyler will be completed within two weeks. Pawnee county has organized an agricultural society. Jefferson county has raised the liquor license to S500. Pawnee City smokes home made cigars. Dannebrog Is organizing a mill company. The Lowell land office reports 115 entries last week. The Loup ferry at Columbus is again in running order. Plum Creek contains about 140 housed and a population of 350. Artificial stone is being manu factured at York . Tecumseh is sinking four public wells. Twelve cars of California freight are transferred on an average each day at Kearney. Large herds of buffalo are now roaming in the neighborhood ot Kearney. Kearney Is to have no further interruption in the construction of the Platte river bridge. Falls City has fifteen stores, three hotels, four livery stables, five churches and seven saloons. The Thayer ooynty anti-horse thief association will meet at Hebron, July 7th. Creto wil have a new elevator in tiaio for grain shipment of this year's crops. Falls city Is elated at the pros, pective extension of the Truukroad to that point. Blooraington is now definitely fixed as the County Seat of Frank lin. The farmers of Lincoln county propose to establish a cheese factory at North Platte. Merriqk county collected over $1,200 from the U. P. for taxes last week. Columbus is to have an iron foundry. They expect to have it In running order by July 20. The Blair hook and ladder com pany propose to purchase new uniforms. The commissioners of Wash ington county have contracted for two iron cells for the Blah jail. Lincoln proposes to ship 3,000 bushels of wheat to Galveston, Texas. The Seward grist mill will be completed by the time the wheat harvest is over. A new steam ferry boat is ex pected to make her appearance at Decatur. The Winnebagoes on the agency have under cultivation 600 acres of wheat, 950 of corn, 90 of oats, and 50 in garden vegetables. The Lincoln Register has been merged in the Blade. The Register Is discontinued and the Blade will hereafter issue a weekly. The Burt count mountain lion has turned up near Cuming creek in Dodge county, and the farmers are in hot pursuit It is currently reported that the division station of the U. P. will soon be moved from Grand Island to some point West. The Saunders county Court Hoiue at Wahoo -is to be completed before the fall term of the Sounder's county District Court The site for the new $50,000 fort in the Loup Valley has been selected and preparations are already on foot for its construction. New Grafton is the name of a station just laid out by the B. & M. railroad, six miles west of Fairmont. - ". 3.'s;-,-yy,-' ' -y .-- -.-"p f--nrrrr-inn BANKING. AiVIX SAUNDERS, President BEX WOOD, ENOS XX)WE Vice Presdent Cashier. STATE SAVINGS BAITS; N. W. Cor. Farnham sud 13th Sts., Capital. Authorized Capitll. .5 tco,ooo . 1,000,OOJ DEPOSITS AS SMALL AS ONE DOL lar sece-red and compound Interest al lowed on the s me. Advantages OVER Certificates of Deposit : THE WnOLE OR ANY PART OF A DE poit after remaining in this Benk three months, will draw interest from d.te of depos it to payment. The whole or any part of a de posit can 1 drawn atjiny time. au,Htf The Oldest Estaoiishea BANKING HOUSE IX MJJUSKA. Caldwell, Hamilton & Co., Easiness transacted same as that of an Ircorpornted Hank. Accounts kept in Currcncj or Gold subject to sight check without no nce. Certificate, or Deposit issued pay able on demand, or at fixed date bearing iuterot at six percent, per annum, and available in in all parts of the conntry. Advances made to customers on approved securities at market rates of interest. But and soil Gold, Bills or Ex change, Government, State, County, and City Bonds. ' "VYe giTO special attention to ncgo liatiiig Railroad and other Corpo rate Loans Issued within the State. Draw Sight Drafts on England, Ireland, Scotland, and all parts of Europe. Sell Enropcan Passage Tickets. COLLLECTIONS PROMPTLY MADE, aultf DEWEY r f STONE, aHnlrsV HF " Mm AmmWIIm n''3&s$Srtlt?-fcm MAX MEYE& & BROTHER, OMAHA, NEBRASKA Furniture Dealers Nos. 187, 189 and 191 Farnham Street. mar2dtl oivc.-ec. ia; EZRA MILLARD. President. J. H. MILLARD, Cashier. OMAHA NATIONAL BANK Cor. Douglas and Thirteenth Streets. OMAHA, - s NEBRASKA. MILTON ROGEBS, Wholesale Stoves TXXTWARE and TXXT2TSHS' STOCK- V Smmmmm x in ss tuf srW ' f .sflEsv&IKi 9BBS9k5llBSsasHssssssKli z3 iflS3f SiissB 'I sm v rv iTwtfsffwwyssBmRs I CHEAP FARMS! FREE HOMES 1 -SOLE WESTERN AGENCY FOR- STEWART'S COOKING and HEATING ST0TES, THE "FEABLESS," COOKING STOVES, CIEILiIEBIRATIEID CHARTER OAK COOKING- STOVES, All of Which Will bo Sold at aTanufactureri' Prices, With Freifflit added. apKtf Sond for Prioo XaiaMi Capital ... $200,000 00 Surplus and Profits ... 3u,0u0 00 FINANCIAL AGENT SFOR THE UNITED STATES. AND DESIGNATED DEPOSITORY DISbUESING OFFCEKa. FOR THIS BANK DEALS in Exchange, Government Bonds, Vouchers. Gold Coin, BULLION and GOLDDUST. .4 And sells dralts and makes collections on all parts of Europo. sfcsrDraf ts drawn payable In gold or curren cy rn the Bank ol California, San Francisco. TICK of llCKETS FOR SALE TO ALL PARTS Europe via the Cunard and National Steamship Lines, and the Hamburg-American Packet Company. jy27tf U.S. DEPOSITORY t a THORTJI NEBRASKA SHIFT MANUFACTORY 159 SFSffl 159 FARNHAM ST., iffBy (ffi FARNHAM ST., OMAHA, 1111 jy NEBRASKA. SHIRTS AND GENTS1 luRNISHM GOODS, &0, AC. aSTShirts ofall kinds made to order. Satisfatlon guarranl sed. sprllyleol Fort Calhoun Mills. On tne Llns ol U Union Pacific Railroad & Laid Graat of 12.000.000 Actm of ti best FARXIS3 and lfi5ERA.T, Laads of Aasricl 1.000.000 ACKFS DC NE BE A SKA IX THE HREAT PLATTE TALLEi THE GABDES OF THE WEST HOW F0S SALE t Thme lands are in tha central oortlon of the United State, on the 41st degree of Nu.th Lail itmle, the central Uce ol the great Temperate Zone of the American Ccatlnent, and forgralal rowing and stock raising unsurpassed by any In the United Staiaji. CHEAPER IB FBICE,nnr fTorble terns d'tn. and mors cenrsnjeat to markst taa ot bo found Elsewhere. M FIVE and TEN YEARS' credit giren with Interest at SIX PER CENT C0LOSI3T3 and ACTUAL SETULEBScaabajea Tea Tsars Orsdlt. Laaii t tao trice to ill CREDIT PUS0HA3ER3. A Deduction TEN PER CENT. FOR CASH. FREE HOirESTEADS FOR ACTUAL SETTLERS. And tho Best Locations for Colonies ! Homestead ci Soldiers Entitled to a 160 Acres. Proo 3TPxMoas to :ETXX"ola.rox-s of Send (or new ltescriptire PamphM, with new maps, pnblished in English, German, Sweed snd Dinis'i, mailed tree eerywhere. Address O. 3TZA.VX0 ulTiMtwll Land Commissioner U. f. K-li-Oo. Omaha, Neb. A. B. HUBERHANN cfc CO., WATCHMAKERS, Manufaoturx OF JEWELHY They are beginning to agitate a change of county seatfrom Platts mouth to Weeping Water, in Cass county. Innumerable Immigrant wagons have passed through Grand Island lately, eu route for the Upper, Mid dle, South and North Loup country, The First National liank Corner of Farham and 1 3th fttrtett. FLOTJ PEED Sso MEAL Manufactured with Great Care from Ihe Best Grain. General Depot, Ccr. 14btli c& Dodge Sts, OMAHA. may 9-lr. EI.A3I CI. IRK. W. B. RXCSs&RDSOlT. S. E. Cor. 13th & Douglas Sts. WATCHES & CLOCKS. JEWELRY AND PLATED-WARE, AT WHOLESALE Oil RETAIL. Dealers Can Save Ordering TIME and of Us. $ FREIGHT llJL- ENGRAVING DONE FREE OF C1U1 03VT.r. XQ-JESZ .SEA THE OLDEST BAHHHG ESTABLISHMENT IN HEBSASKA. (Successors to Konntze Brothers.) ESTABLISHED IN 1858. Organized as a National Bank, August 26, 1883 Capital end Profits over $250,000 OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS : E. CREiaiTTOJf, President H. COUNTZE, Vice Pres't. A. KOUXTZE, Cashier. H. W. YATES, As't Cashier. A. j. roprLETOX, Attorney. PITCH, FELT AND GRAVELROOFER. And Manufjcturer at Dry an t Saturated llooflnjr and She:hlnjr. Felt. ALSO DEALERS IX Roofing, Pitch., Coal, Tar, Etc., Etc. EOOPiWG in any pai t of Nebraska or adjoining States. 12th; treet. Address P O. Box 132. J0-ALL lanll-tf GOODS WARRANTED TO BE AS REPRESENT? Tlxo teatrioo Hydraulic, Cement, AND An Old Man and His Wife Killed at the Same Instant. Henry Brand, a German, aged about CO 3'ears, who was an old resi dent of Spring Creek precinct, in this county, accompanied by his wife and son, last Sunday visited his daughter, -who lives a few miles dis tant from his place. On their way, returning home in the evening about 4 o'clock, on the road between the residence of Mr. Gray and Perry Phillips, the old gentleman and hU wife were instantly killed. The wagon in whiPh they rode "was a two seated one, their son occupying the front seat, and the father and mother tho on behind. The son says he was shocked for an Instant, his head falling forward. On re covering and looking behind, ho saw his father lying in the wagon, apparently dead, and the features of his mother moved convulsively for a moment, when she too fell forward, lifeless. It was a sad and trying moment to the son. As soon as he oould collect his senses, ho drove to the nearest house. The body of Mrs,. Brand bean no visible mark of the lightning, while the body of Mr. Brand Is burned In places, as though by a hot iron. One ot the mules attached to tho wagon was knocked down "by the lightning, and the col lar and shirt front of young Brand, who was driving, is singed brown by the eleotrlo Quid, The wagon was not Injured, and the only ei?eot observed on any part of U ft where the lightning farced a couple of bolts or nails iurther Into the wood or the spring sear. The deceased husband and wife who have thus, in the providence of God, been so suddenly summoned lrom earth to eternity, were qtstet. industrious people, In good clrcunv nances, ana were nigniv reepeciea by their neighbor. They were members of theXutheran Church. Tfcey were buried in 8pring Creek Cemetery, on Tuesday, After the many years of lifts to, tether, n death they were not di- yjffcdj fiwmnh &ruid, ' Her name was Elvira Blazier, agtd 16, she lived at Lincoln and tried to kindle a fire with kerosene. An explosion, followed by a funeral was the consequence. Heward is making many im portant Improvements this summer. It is now conceded that the Mid land Pacific will retain her western terminus at Seward for years to come. The Nebraska .Leather Company at Lincoln have contracted for an Increase of 44 by 40 feet to their building. When this Improvement is completed, the tannery will be 64 by 44 feet, with a capacity of 10,000 to 12,000 pieces a year. On Saturday morning last, Mrs. Puller, of Spring Ban I township, Dixon county, Nebraska, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. She was returning to her home from her son's residence, a short distance with a pail of milk, ohe word earrings and the fluid struck oip of these, passing down nor siae and into the ground from her toes, tearing the flesh in a frightful manner. She was a widow lady, and well advanced in years, Juniata and Hastings are at swords points. The County Com missioners of Adams county voted $13,000 to build a court house at Juniata, then let the oontract and ordered the warrants issued within twelve hours. Hastings moved en masse to Juniata to stop proceedings, and the only thing that saved them .was the refusal of the county clerk to sign and seal the warrants. Hast ings now moves for an injunotion. An indignation meeting was held and the commissioners invited to" resign, which they, of course, failed to do. Clay county contains 869,640 acres. One half of this, or 184, 820 acres was U. S. Government land, which, of course, has all.been taken up, and is being settled upon and improved. The U. P B. B. too held some 2,000 acres In the north west earner of the county. TheB. AM, railroad company held the balance bf the land, or about 177. 600 acres. -This land was pqt on the 4 market la- the spring ori872.j Of this wide area' only about 38,000 acres remain ianold. That is to say FfflP l$iXX acres of B, M. land alone has been sold In -the eoasty FIFE COMPANY, WOULD INFORM TIIE TUBLIC THAT they are now ready to furnish HY DRAULIC CEMENT, of the Tery best quality, and in any quantity.either at the factory, which Is located at Beatrice.Ncb , or at tho Pipe works in Ouiaha They also aro prepared to furnish all kinds ofCfMENT PIPING forSEWERAGE. DRAINAGE, ETC, Abo manufacture all styles of CHIMNEY WORK. WE GUARAN TEE OUR CEMENTfO BE EQUAL TO ANY HYDRAULIC CEMENT MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES. -ORDERS FROM DEALERS RESPECT FULLY SOLICITED. DRSSS. BEATRICE HYDRAULIC CEMEST & PIPE CO. 02IAZTA - - NEBRASKA. niy21-Ja 2BC. jlx. FArr33, CARRIAGE, BUGGY and TVaGON MANUFACTURER. N. E. CORNER of Hth and HARNEY STS. WOULD respectfully announce to the pub lic that he is .now ready to fill all con tracts in the abore lines with neatness and dbpatch. SrExpress wagons constantly on hand and or sale. Office opposite. the Gu Works, on WHOLESALE CANDIES T am now manufacturing all varieties of candies and will sell at EASTEBH PRICES Dealers in this State need not want to go Exsl f ji CAXDI J1S. A trial is solicited. Botiglas St mchlltt HENE7 LATEY, Oor- 12t2x. Otnalia SIHSrO-IEiR. SIHSTQ-IEIR,. The King of the SEWING MACHINE Realms of Finance. WORLD as pre-eminently as Gold Reigns in the SALES FOR 18T3: In Rotmd Numbers 232,444 Machines! ItBelng orer One. Hundred and Thirteen Thousand more Machines than were sold by any other Sewing Machine Company during the same time. It will liar ly be denied upon such exidencc that the superiority of the Singer is fu'.lr de monstrate d. THE SINGER MANF'G CO. S C. Abbott J. Cacw S. C. ABBOTT & CO., Booksellers 1 Statioi DBALSRSLN W.AXZ- PAP3ES, DXCORTi Axras -WliNTIDOr SHADES,, No. 188 Farnham Street. Omaha, Palilisbers' Agents for School Books aswl Ib Jfehraskj GEO. A. HOAGLAND, Wholesale Lum OFFICE AND YARD COR. OF DOUGLAS AND 6TH STS., U. F. B. R. TBACL OMAHA - - - 2STE: anlltl je W. N. NASOiV, Agent, :SO. 212 DOUGLAS STREET, OMAHA. 400,009 ACRES! OF THE FINEST Elkliorn Yjilley Xands ! O. Xi. A. KLATTE, 3Vw:E3:R,Q:E3:A.:fcTT TAILOR, 288 Dodge Street, 2d Door East of 16th Street. I Veep constantly on hand the finest sto-iof Brual Cloth, Caulmeres and Vestinjs ; which I am prepared to make up in tLe most fashionable styles and to suit the m.ot fastidious, at the lowest posslUs priei s. JelOdl f WM, M. FOSTER, Wholesale Lumber? WINDOWS, DOORS, BLINDS, MOULDINGS, LC. Plaster Paris, Hair, Dry and Tarred Felt. Sole Agents for Bear Creek Lime aril Louisville Coiaeat OFFICEAND YAP.1.: . . CW A TT A and Douglas bti. j J I'l f i H, On C P. Track, bet Farnham spr2tf NEB. 38. FOR sale: bt 3VX. Wisner, ITob rnilESE LANDS AP.E CONVENIENT TO L the market and the FINEST in the STATE! And will be sold at from $2,50 to $5.00 PER ACREl For Cash or ou Ion? Tine. "ETS for sale at O. & N. W. De pot, bearing coupons which will he taken at full cost in payment lor land, -stay racrvro or axd osuu nr- LurtrefiiM m Wlmtar Slutfes, CHK0XOS, ENGRAYI5HS AND PICTURE FRAMES. 170 Farafcaia street, corner Fiftmmlfc B. & J WILBUR, Books and Stationery, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, Fourto3n.th. Street. - Omah.su, XTeb GENERAL AGENTS FOR ALL S' lid L ROOKS art lmy O. F. GOODMAN, WHOLESALE DRUGGIST, Practical Watckmaker, ,t.X.0x.llksH. And Scaler In PAINTS, OILS AND WINDOW GLASS, Omaha. Nebraska. Jel9lf. GRAND CENTRAL Taa: JKAHa, jebrasia Thelarzest anl best hotel between Chicago tad San Francisco. Opened new September -30th, 1S73. s30 tf GEO. T1LKALL. Proprietor. KT IK" """ :b: 3a X 3VX -DEALER IX- i Fruits, Confectionery, CIGARS AND TOBACCO. EUreath streets, . NEBBASKA. r OMAHA. -- - -J- Established 1858. . a. sxnxsoxtrrj X. I. D. SOLOMON, OIZi3 AITS WINDOW GLASS, COAL OIL AND HEAD-LIGHT OIL OMAHA - NEBRASKA FAIRLIE & MONELL, BLANK BOOK MANUFACTURERS. Stationers, Engravers and Printers. 2TOTARXAI1 AITD LQ23CB SEALS. Masonic, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias TJNIPOBMS. AT LODGE PROPERTIES. JEWELS. BOOKS, BLANKS, ETC., JBS-EASTERX PRICES AND EXPRESS.-! 28aZouctasi Street, - OMAHA. JSTjEjB. CARRIAGE KANUFACT01T 5S8 Sl (0ea a? sjsEsS69sssia cavsTajsvay i. i M.S.- ahtstalerMSklas ARTHUR BUCKBEE. RFE2TTXB, BUZZ. XSD DEaLEU in sxzi CO OS I z o I -CD " Tar TkrsW. ranc fYsBeterlrS Ckuvk Grwfe rr- . . - ? - 5j sskwasMusaes); - y 1 1 H; b nas. jnaawwHS'j rH b w 52! Q P.fcUc Farts OMAHA m ii ill tog l.f IslUN ? . - Bfssn V tc i Sr r Vs- v3 'A. -4 -Am Si' - ' asvya Hfiifipe over ye J