The Columbus journal., 1879-02-19
THE JOURNAL.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 10, 1879.
Grs. GRANT and party arrived at
Bombay on the 18th.


Bombay on the 18th.
Z. II. THOMPSON, retired commo
dore Of the navy, died at Phila
delphis on the 18th.
IRA STEWART, living n ear Water
town, N. ", wss shot and killed BY
his insane son on the 18th.
THE snow storm at Quebec on The
lAh was the worst of the season
No trains arrived or expected.
A HEAVY snow storm prevailed
throughout Western Oregon and
Washington Territory on the l4th.
Ir is expected that five hundred
new psrdons of communists In
France will be announced shortly.
The President has approved the
act 10 allow women TO practice be-
fore the Supreme Court of the U. s.
CARLING's brewery, at London,
Ont, burned on the morning of the
18th. Loss, over insurance Sl5O,OOO.
ALEX. VAUGHN, ballot-box stuffer
in Petersburgh, Va, was sentenced
on the l4th to year in Jail aud a
fine of $3.50.
B. +. ALLEN, former citizen of
Des Moines, Ia, goes TO Leadville,
Colorado, to engage in mercantile
business.
Hon. ZACH CHANDLER was un-
animiously nominated on the 18th
inst, at Lansing for United States
Senator.
PATRICK QUINN was arrested the
other day at Omaha, charged with
receiving and disposing of stolen
stock out west.
WILLIAMSON, u. S. minister to
Central America, has resigned, for
the purpose of experimenting the
Iona Sarga mine.
THE state board of agriculture
have decided TO locate the state fair
at Lincoln by a vote of the special
committee four to three.
News from New York under date
of the l4th states that Nephew Pei
ton is confined at the Everett House
BY nervous prostration.
JOHN EDWARDS was hanged at
Smithfield, North Carolina, OH the
18th for the murder OF h. j. Ballard
q preacher, on Oct. 9th, 1873.
The report that yellow fever had
appeared at Memphis turns out on
investigation TO be a false alarm
without any support 10 it.
Our exchanges report the small
pox in Fairbury. The disease
is reported to be at all the towns on
the st. Joe and Denver road as far
west as Edgar.
The Spaniards are becoming
alarmed at Madrid, and thirty ar
rests have been made within a few
days in connection with the dis
covery of papers and arms.
The SEVENTEEN anniversary of the
birthday of Abraham Lincoln was
celebrated in New York on the
night of the 18th by the Lincoln
club. The rooms were crowded.
A DECISION has been reached by
the Vatican at Rome TO create ccr-
tain new dioceses in the United
States in consequence Of the great
growth of the church in this
country.
KNIGHT and JACKSON, jointly in
dicted for wrecking a train Oh the In
dianapolis & ST. Louis road, were
found guilty and sentenced at Terre
Haute. Ind, on the l4th, TO imprison-
nent for life.
EDWARD O'KELLEY, the last Fe-
nian prisoner, has been released on
condition that he would leave the
British Isles. lie was placed on
board OF steamship on the 10th
bound for New York.
A COLLISION occurred on the New
York Central railroad, at Verde
Station, sixteen miles east of Buffalo
on the 18th, demolishing two en-
gines and caboose, and killing a
number of hogs and sheep.
PASTORS of Catholic churches at
Pottsville, Pa, and in other towns
give notice that the church will ex-
communicate all members of the
Knights of Labor societies which
succeeded the Mollie Maguires.
The caving in of deep cut at the
G,ot Of Grand avenue, Kansas City,
being made for the Chicago & Alton
railroad, killed six persons outright
aud wounded several others. All
the dead bodies were recovered.
On Thursday last Charles McGill
was executed at Cleveland, Ohio, for
the murder of Mary Kelly, into
whose body be shot eleven bullets.
The execution is described as hav-
ing been very neatly done.
JOHN HoPE has been arrested in
New York charged with being one
of the men who robbed the Man
haitian Savings bank of 100000,
mostly ia bonds. The officers are