The Columbus journal., 1878-12-25
THE JOURNAL,
WEDNESDAY, DEC. %, 1873.

Leland, cost S2U,OOO.
REPRESENTATIVE WILLIAMS, of
Michigan, is dangerously i'll.
SENATOR PADDOCK will accept our
thanks for public documents.
THREE boys were drowned at
North Cambridge, Boston, Oh the
9lst while skating.
OMAHA and Council Bluffs are
somewhat interested over a railroad
project from the south.
VI. LAMBERTsoN has been con-
firmed as United States attorney
for the district of Nebraska.
The bill appropriating $3.50, 600
for transportation of mails by rail
roads has passed the House.
FROM the North Platte, up TO the
Goth, horse stealing by the Indians
still seems 10 be the order of the
day.
GOLD sold at par in New York on
the 18th, for the first time since the
suspension Of specie payments, in
1862.
AN exchange says that a Cots
wold sheep in Fillmore county has
a coat of wool twenty-one inches in
length.
1T is stated in an exchange that
fifteen hundred women and girls
work in printing Offices in New
York city.
ARMED bands of desperadoes have
arrived at Austin, Texas, from New
Mexico,and they show signs of max
ing trouble.
A DISPATCH from ConstantinOple
says Romer will be expelled from
Turkey with the consent OF the
American legation.
JUDGE THURMAN in speaking of
The elections in the South in reply
to Blaine, declared that Intelligence
and property must rule"
PATRICK BoURKE and family of
five children were all burned to
death by fire in their home on the
night of the 18th at Cohoes, n. Y.
A MODEL New York clerk is stat
ed 10 be only nineteen years old, and
the list of his achievements includes
burglary, embezzlement and forgery.
IT is stated that the Indians at
Red Cloud agency are about out of
provisions, and are becoming un-
easy, with no immediate prospect of
a supply.
On the 18th inst, Blaine's rcsolu-
tion for committee TO inves tigate
recent election frauds, as amended,
was agreed to by the following vote,
Yeas 90 naysO U.
A CALL was issued on the 18th bv
the secretary of the treasury for
$l0,996, 100, being the last of the
bonds outstanding under the act of
March Sd, 1865.
The Democracy have found that
the best way TO answer Blaine is TO
maintain a mastery silence. Blaine
is not Blaine unless he has some one
so "sauce back"
Dr.. MEYL, who some time since
robbed the graveyard at Zanesville,
Ohio. was sentenced the other day
TO one years Imprisonment, and to
pay fine ofSl 000.
The secretary of the treasury has
authorized the public debt falling
due on the lst of January, 1879, TO
be paid in coin or currency, as the
claimant may prefer.
The death of Congressman Doug
lasB. Beverly, %: Virginia, was report
ed on Sunday ) a. m. at the Nation
al Hotel. His body was taken to
Richmond for interment.
REPRESENTATIVE o. 5. Williams
died at 4 o'clock on the morning of
the 2lst. Ills remains will be taken
charge of by congressional COM
mittee, and taken to Detroit.
KEARNEY has an acquisition oftwo
more new papers, The NORpdriei
aud Citizen. The citizens of Kearney
will not, in the future, lack for the
want of newspaper literature.
FROM Menlo Park, n. Y, we have
the intelligence that Senator Nc
Pherson's fine residence burned on
the night of the 22d, the inmates
barely escaping. Loss $4,000.
WE notice among the Senate con-
uIuailOus ubuCI udtt VI tue 1Jiu,
that our old friend Saml. A. Russell,
has been confirmed as Indian agent
at Apache Agency, New Mexico.
GEORGE WILLIAMS and Benjamin
Bonvil. convicts in the Ohio peni-
teniisFy. escaped therefrom on the
morning of the 18th by scaling the
walls of the prieon by means of
rope ladder.
lDLENEss, coupled with poverty,
is a great incentive TO crime. 1t is
just as necessary that every boy
should have a trade as that he
should have education sufficient 70
transact any ordinary business with
his fellow w-men.--OmGhd Bee.
FRANKS HALL, large brick build