The Columbus journal., 1879-05-28
THE JOURNAL.
WEDNESDAY. MAY eS, fs79-
BURGLARS and thieves are report
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THE Broadway Savings Bank at
St. Louis closed its doors on the
morning of the ED.
THE law makers still keep up the
practice in Delaware of publicly
whipping petty criminals.
THE wagon factory of Abbott s.
Emery located at Brownyillc, Neb.,
burned last week. No insurance.
Loss, 5000.
The cholera in Peshawar is so
bad that il will interfere with the
prompt withdrawal of troops from
Afchanistan.
Miss L. +. BURLINGTON, of Mil
waukee, and Mr., L. W. Walker, of
Owatonna, Minnesota, were married
by telegraph on the 22d.
ErGENE JACcARD & Co.'S jewelry
store at st. Louis was robbed, on
the night Of the 2lst, of about $4,000
worth of jewelry. No clue 10 the
robbers.
THE effect of the democratic rule
is already beginning TO tell about
the departments at Washington city
on account of the exhaustion of ap-
preparations.
LAMB & Sons dry-house and saw
mill, located at Clinton, Iowa, to-
gethcr with forty dwellings, was
destroyed by fire on the 22d. The
loss will reach several hundred
thousand dollars.
JOHN e. SMITH of New York has
been confirmed by the senate as In
dian agent at Pawnee Agency, In
dian Territory: and n. l.. Porter,
Of Nebraska, TO a like position at
Fort Peck agency, Montana.
o. p. MULLEN's store building
and the post-office at Aida, Hall Co.,
burned on the morning of the 2lst.
The stock of goods and much mail
matter were destroyed. The fire
was the work of an incendiary.
From St. Louis we learn that
freights to the seaboard dropped on
the morning Of the 23d to eight cents
per barrel on flour to New York,
fifteen cents TO Boston, and fifteen
cents per hundred on grain to New
York.
ALL over the country last week
destructive fires were reported,
among which was the burning of
Fowler's linseed oil works at
Brooklyn on the 23d, consuming in
a very short time $4,000 worth of
property.
The London Times has very
unfavora bic opinion of the new
constitution of California, and de-
scribes il "a the most astounding in
strument ever framed for the gov
ernment ofa community, and believes
il will produce widespread ruin.
LAND owners in England assert
that the farmers are failing right and
left. Several large owners OF farms
have announced their intention to
work their own farms. The failure
of the farmers is attributed TO the
vast food imports from America.
The menagerie establishment own
cd by J. NJ. French near Detroit was
destroyed by fire on the morning of
the 22d. The elephant, Sutton, five
lions, a zebra, leopard, stag and
many other valuable animals were
consumed. Loss $4,000; insurance
Sll,O00.
PRESIDENT HAYES is keeping him
self well posted on the subjects of
democratic legislation, and he is re-
ported as stating that he must veto
any measure that prohibits the gov
ernment from taking care of its own
elections. This is coming down to
business, and the democracy may
have in the future a still better un-
derstsnding of the Presidents views.
WIN. LLOYD GARRISON, the great
abolitionis,, died at IL o'clock on the
night O'Clock of the 9th. We
shall not attempt TO write his biog-
raphy, but his name and deeds
will be preserved in history and
lie will be handed down to future
generations as a benevolent and
able advocate of human rights,
and equal justice to all people in
every land.
THE general character of the cor
respondence TO the department of
agriculture at Washington City ap-
pears 10 be hopeful of a revival of
industry throughout the country,
and the surplus of unemployed labor
is growing less. Good labor can
generally find employment at fair
prices. Many are idle because they
will not accept the reduced wages
offered.
ORLANDO CAsLEP, the murderer Of
Geo. l.. Monroe, was hanged at
Seward, Neb.. on the Goth, at 80 p.
m. The crowd assembled to witness
the hanging swsyed TO and fro until
the enclosure gave way and tumbl-
ed down, thus making the execution