The Columbus journal., 1879-11-05

MANY leading democrats are indig-
sant over the schism in their ranks
in New York.
IT is stated that scattering ban'ds
Of Indians were securing the Mix
river country, Wyo., last weet..
IT is claimed that the squ'aw wife
Of Chief johnson saved uIe lives Of
Mrs. Neeker and the otter captives.
A CROWD Of over four hundred
people hooted the Lord Mayor in
the streets of London on the Both
ult.
LAST week another sale was made
at Leadyille, being the third OF the
Vulture, 10 Mackey, Tabor & Co,
for S250,O00.
ONE hundred and eighty three
thousand pounds Of gold was with
drawn from London on the 9th nit,
for New York.
III is stated that the friends of
Secretary Everts admit that he is
working earnestly to succeed Kcr-
nan in the Senate.
IT is stated by Paris correspond
ent that two hundred inhabitants of
Injuupoint, in Eastern Siberia, have
persisted by famine.
The treasury at Washington City
last week purchased $4,000 ounces
of silver for the Philadelphia and
San Francisco mints.
An unknown tramp, about forty
years old, while sleeping in a straw
stack near Columbus, Indiana, was
gored TO death by bull.
WALTER GOODRICH, who recently
disappeared from Chicago, with sus-
picious of foul play, has turned up
in indianapolis, on a "spree."
Hon. A. l.. Brown, of Ohfo, and
Republican Senator elect from Ross
and Highland counties, died at
Hillsboro on the night of the Goth
ultimo.
The captives Mrs. and Miss Nee
ker and Mrs. Price and two children
arrived in Denver on the night of
the 30th nit. Mrs. Meeker was
quite i'll.
Oh the Both ult. the A. Il Y. rail
road entered Seward. The frog
was placed in the crossing Of the b.
& NJ. on the % ult, ready for cross
ing that track.
Two freight trains collided near
Williamstown, on the Troy and
Boston railway, on the 2Sth ult.,
causing about $4,000 damage to cars
and locomotives.
The scverest storm ever known at
this season of the year occurred at
Mt. Washington, n. H., on the Doth
ult., the wind attaining a velocity of
332 miles per hour.
JAS. KELLY, Thos. McGee, Thos.
McCarty cut their way ont of Lud-
low street Jail in New York the
other day. They were under sem
tence for counterfciting.
THE daughter Of a French General,
Commandant at Tours, eloped the
other day from Paris TO London for
the purpose Of marrying Turk, the
son Of the Ambassador to England.
HEIBEIT BENTON and frankie
Woodward both committed suicice
by shooting themselves with the
same pistol, the man killing himself
first No cause is assigned for the
deed.
BUSINESS generally resumed in
Memphis on the 9th ult. That day,
through trains on all railroads cX-
cepting the Little Rock route, arriv-
cd and departed. No new cases of
fcvc- reported, and no deaths.
THE tug boat Daniel Brown eX-
pioded her boiler on the 29lh in the
East river, instantly killing the fire.
man and deck hand, and seriously
injuring the engineer and cook. The
tug was blown ints fragments.
ANOTHER little item from the clec-
ton in Ohio shows how the people
felt on the senatorial question. The
Republican majority on the legislat-
i've vote is l7,Sl4, au excess of GS5
over the majority for governor.
Mrs. BETSEY Ross of Philadelphia
was the ladf VINO m2de the hrst
American flag. cutting the stars
from white satin without ever NOV
lug the scissors from the material
until the star was finished. She
was a quaker lady and a good poet
and singer.
THE fire in the Pinkerton tunnel
on the Baltimore 4 Ohio railroad
has burned out all the timbers of the
tunnel, aud il is believed has caught
in a vein of coal in the mountains
above, as smoke has been seen issu-
ing from them. a temporary track
will have 10 be built around the
mountains.