The Columbus journal., 1879-03-05
THE JOURNAL.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5. 1879.
The widow Of Charles Dickens is

Niet ttais thse eP'"S'
The legislature OF Nebraska ad'
journed on the S5th ult.
CoUSrERFEIr half dollars are In
circulation at West Point.
The mercury at Toronto, Ont, on
the 2lst, went down to 3S degrees.
IT Is claimed that Nebraska raised
last year $4,000, 600 bushels of W heat.
Ex-PREsIDENT MCMAHON of France
was reported quite i'll on the 18th
ult.
Hon. LORENZO CRoUSsF has been
nominated for Revenue Collector OF
Nebraska.
BUILDINGS are being erected at
Madrid for the international exhibi-
ton of 1880.
SMALLPOX and measles are raging
among the Indians i'm the vicinity
OF Austin, Nevada.
AT Parkersburg, West Va, on
the 9th ult., ten valuable buildings
were destroyed by fire.
FROM Berlin under date of March
LIST we have the statement that
fifteen feet of snow fell in Schles-
wig.
The Republican State central
committee of Ohio has decided to
hold the next state convention at
Cincinnati, May the 2Sth.
JACOB BAILY has retired from
the Globe Journal, Falls City, and
Messrs. May & Davis succeed him
as editors and publishers.
PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON and re-
tinue sailed on the steamer Danube,
from Southampton on the 9th ult.,
for the Cape to join the British.
FROM Paris we learn that of the
forty-nine persons on board the ship
Adriatic, wrecked near Dunkirk,
seven only are known to be saved.
CHARLES ANGEL, the defaulting
secretary of the Pullman Palace Car
Company, will, il is believed, plead
guilty in the criminal court, at Chi
csgo.
CHARLES w. ANGEL, the default
ing secretary Of the Pullman Palace
Car Go. plead guilty and was SEN
fenced TO ten years in the peniten-
tiary.
The channel storms and snow
drifts are continued, practically
preventing postal communication
between France and England, on
the 2Sth ult.
DAVID PENpER, of New York city,
who pulled the diamond rings from
the ears of lady some time since,
has been sentenced to states prison
for twenty years.
A FIRE in Fry's stables, east fifty
third street, New York, on the
morning of the 9th ult., burned to
death forty-three valuable horses.
Loss over 100000.
ROBERT o. KELLEY, the recently
released Fenian, arrived at New
York on the 9th ult. He was met
down the bay, escorted to the city,
and introduced to a number of
prominent Irishmen.
The Fort Worth special says the
Yuma stage was again stopped in
the city limits. The only passenger
was robbed, the mail bags rifled,
and valuable letters carried off.
IT is stated that the Union Pacific
railroad company has agreed to
appropriate two millions dollars to
complete the Colorado Central from
Georgetown, its present terminus,
10 Leadyille.
JUDGE ALEX. RIVERS holding
United States court at Danville, Va. |;
five county court Judges were in
dicted by the grand jury for falling to
allow negro jurors. Great indigna-
ton prevails.
BoYNroN, who has undertaken the
foolish experiment Of floating down
the Ohio river i'm a rubber suit, was
caught in q gorge and nearly crush
ed to death, but he fiuslly succeeded
in making his escape.
The British government has char
tered the steamer Andean 90 carry
aportion ofthe artillery to the Cape.
This makes the sixteenth steamer
chartered TO carry troops and war
Material 20 South Africa.
A CATHOLIC CHURCH, a Presby-
terian church and railway sheds on
Prince Edwards Island during a
storm the other day, were all blown
down. Snow In the railway cuts