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for his age. Any information will be thankfully received. The Beatrice Express says purchasers of Otoe reserve lands are coming in promptly with their second payment. Several have already paid up in full. The general disposition of purchasers is to pay up as fast as the money can be obtained. Prof. H. H. Nicholson, of the department of chemistry and physics at the state university, has analyzed the water of the Lincoln city well, and pronounces it the best he has yet examined in the state. Ex-Gov. David Butler, of Pawn ee county, took a train-load of fat cattle to Chicago a few days ago, and brought back a train-load of stock cattle, which he will feed and fatten. There is a probability of Kearney postoffice being placed on the second-class list. The receipts for the year ending January last amounted to $150 more than is required to place the office in the second-class list and the change will be made during the coming two months: The citizens of Fairmount turned out in force a few nights ago to search for a four year old girl that got lost on the prairie. She was found about midnight badly frightened but otherwise all right. The mother will keep closer watch on her darling hereafter. Quite a "run" was made on the Omaha savings bank a few days ago, but all were promptly given their money, and many of them, when they saw how sound an institution it was, returned their wealth over the counter. The run was started by an idle rumor. S. H. H. Clark has been made first vice president of the Union Pacific, this arrangement having been perfected on the occasion of Mr. Clark's recent visit to New York. He will still remain general manager of the line. At the sheep shearing festival at Beatrice, pens of sheep were shorn by P. J. Myers, F. K. Holt, F. B. Slater, Pickerel Brothers and J. N. Fuller, of Gage county, and C. K. Codman, of Webster county. Two hundred guests were present at the Wool Growers' association banquet. The stockholders of the agricultural society of Fairbury, have purchased a tract of land of thirty acres, to be used as a permanent fair ground. The price paid was $30 per acre. The millinery store of Mrs. Hill, of Tecumseh, was entered a few nights ago, and quite a large amount of laces and ribbons stolen. Eliza Maulding and Rose Tyson were arrested for the theft, and at an examination, Eliza was sentenced to the Reform school at Kearney. A new industry is about to begin operations in Red Cloud-marble yards on an extensive scale. Hon. A. J. Poppleton will deliver the address at the cemetery in the decoration day exercises at Omaha. A collision on the Minneapolis and Omaha road near Emerson resulted in the wreck of two engines and the ditching of a number of cars. Fifty laborers on the work train and the regular crews were badly shaken up, but no one was injured. The Gazette says Ashland ought to have a woolen mill giving employment to from thirty to fifty hands. It would be a wonderful help to the town and the adjacent country. They have the power, the water and a good sheep country. Mr. Berkenbine proposes to give to the city of Lincoln waterworks, with about ten miles of main. for about $85,000. The Holly people propose to outfit the city for $90,000 and have the work completed in ninety days. The trustees of Neligh, at a recent meeting, decided to grant no license for the sale of liquor. Preminm lists for the state fair, which will be held in Omaha from September 5th to 12th inclusive, are now ready for distribution. The Ashland Gazette says that on Saturday morning last an accident occurred to the little son of F. M. Coucher, that seems almost miraculous in its result. He was playing in an alley near his home unconscious of the approach of a wagon heavily loaded with ashes and manure. In making a short turn the hind wheel ran diagonally across the lad from the groin to the side