The Columbus journal., 1879-01-29
THE JOURNAL.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. %, 1879.
The United States court at Lin.


coin adjourned Oh the 22d.
SENATOR CAMERON has been re-
elected Senator from Penn. s
PRESIDENT HAYES on the 25th
signed the arrears of pension bill.
AT Henryville, Ind, recently
twelve mad dogs havs been killed.
BLooMINGToN is frightened over
the possession Of a case of small
pox.
Gov. II. b. VANCE has been elect
ed u. S. Senator from North Car
olina.
J. ID. WALKER has been elected
United States Senator from Ar
kansas.
o. III. PLATT was elected senator
on the 22d for. the State of Con-
necticut.
Hon. MATT CARPENTER has been
elected United States Senator from
Wisconsin.
JAMES LITCH, of the South Platte,
Colorado, killed twenty-five buffalo
in two days.
Stock on the Laramie Plains, Wy
oming, are reported to be in splen-
did condition.
THE Judson bank, Ogdensburg,
N. Y, closed its doors on the morn
ing of the 22d.
WE hear so little of the Grange
any more! An other store, at
Wapello, Iowa, has closed.
WEST POINTERS are making some
$500 strikes for location, at that
place, of state normal school.
VOORHEES,, democrat, was re-elect-
ed Senator from Indiana for the
short and long terms, OH the 2lst.
LAST week Alderman William
Clendenning, iron founder at Mon
treal, absconded with $4,000 cash.
JOHN A. LOGAN has finally
triumphed over his political enemies
and was on the 2lst elected Senator
from Illinois.
WIN. G.. THOMPSON, Of Iowa, has
been confirmed by the Senate as
chief justice of the supreme court of
Idaho.
The secretary of the treasury has
called for S20,OOO,OOO of $40 bonds,
principal and interest 10 be paid
April oath.
In Joint session of the senate and
house of the New York legislature
on the 22d Roscoe Conkling was
elected senator.
WEEKS & PoTTER's drugstore
at Boston was blown up last week
by an explosion which caused a loss
of $4,000.
A MAIL POUCH was stolen from
the crane at PennsborO, West Va,
and eight registered letters taken
out on the 9th inst.
The Lancaster Co. Commissioners
refused the other day to issue liquor
license to a man who desired to
start a saloon at Firth.
THE Teller committee sitting at
Charleston, 5. c., is developing
fraudulent voting and ballot-box
stuffing in that region.
The St. Louis Republican favors
the adoption of the "whipping" law,
aud believes that it would lessen all
manner of brutality and ruffianism.
GEN. JAMES SHIELDS for the short
term, and Col. Geo. G.. Vest for the
long term as United State Senators
from Missouri, were elected on the
2lst.
IT is predicted that there will be
a bitter fight over the New York
custom house nominations, and that
every effort will be made to defeat
them.
THE statement needs confirmation
that American coal is selling at
Geneva slightly cheaper than French
or German coal, and is much su-
Perior.
WE learn from the Omaha Repub-
ican that John G. Compton was
taken to the penitentiary on the
afternoon of the 25,h, to serve out
his sentence.
CAPT. GEO. PRINCE of Bath, Me-,
was arrested last week, charged
WIN OOiaiuiiS a ldi SC dihOuut vi
money from the pension Office on
fictitious names.
THE Omaha Bees illustrated an
nual review speaks well for the en-
terprise of the publishers, and de-
serves universal commentator,
from the citizens of Omaha.
p. T. BARNUM and other parties
have bought the Craig property To-
Gated in the southern part of Colo
RADIO, embracing about $4,000 acres,
for which they pay s350,000.
The Dayton & Michigan railway
company's elevator with 100000
bushels of grain, was totally de-
stroyed by fire on the Oath at Tole-