The Columbus journal., 1879-01-08
THE JOURNAL.
wEDNEsDAY,JAN. s, 1879.

GRAND Lodge I. o. G. II. convene,
at Lincoln January 10Th.
HoN. CALEB CUSHING died on the
Cd at Newburyport, Mass.
Tue Teller subcommittee started
on Friday last as promised for New
Orleans.
The Teller subcommittee had ar
ranged to leave for New Orleans on
last Friday.
FIVE carloads of furniture have
arrived for the government build
ing at Lincoln.
KANSAS CITY wants TO be trans
ferred from the State of Missouri
TO that of Kansas.
The Seward School Board appro-
PIRATES 500 for the purchase OF
philosophical apparatus.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS JR., has
resigned as government director OF
the Union Pacific X. r. Co.
AT Berlin, Deputy Most has been
sentenced 10 six months imprison-
mept for "insulting religion"
ALL the Russian commissary
stores and offices at Adrianople
were on the 4th destroyed by fire.
THE New York Tribune says the
the sub-treasury has ceased to keep
coin and currency accounts separate.
JOHN SHERMAN, secretary of the
treasury, is being talked Of as a
probable candidate for president in
1880.
LAST week $50 deaths from scarlet
fever were reported in New York
City, an increase of 80 cases over the
previous week.
The cold wave of the I'd struck
ST. Louis and lowered the tempera-
ture some forty or more degrees
during the night.
An other call from the secretary
of the treasury is expected to be
issued soon for the redemption of
sl0,OG0,0O0 more of $40 bonds.
w. NJ. SOLOMON and ID. w. Lew
ell were killed Oh the 1st at Virgin
ia City, by the explosion of giant
powder in the Occidental tunnel.
Hoe cholera is reported to be very
bad in Buchanan county, Iowa, aud
no less than 1000 died in one neigh
borhood within two weeks.
The Second Baptist church in ST.
Louis, the finest in the city, was
entirely destroyed by fire on the 3D..
The building was valued at 100000.
A TEAM broke through the ice at
Richmond, Que, on the 3lst and
Messrs. Rowe & Kemp, of Kings
bury, and Mrs. Sadler, OF Melborne,
were drowned.
TwEEDRE & WILLIAMS, bankers,
proprietors of the Cornish Bank,
England, have failed. Their liabil-
ities are heavy, affecting the whole
Cornish district,
IT is expected at New York that
$1,000 Mennonites will arrive from
Russia by May, this being the last
year of their exemption from mill
tary service.
The Lincoln Journal advises Co.
Commissioners TO confine the VOL
ume of warrants to the amount of
taxes actually collected from year
to year.
AT New Orleans the thermometer
has been down to two degrees above
zero, something almost unknown in
that latitude. Ii is feared that the
orange crop will be destroyed.
A YOUNG man by the name of
John Casper, living near Nebraska
City, Nebraska, was killed by the
accidental discharge of his gun
while out hunting on the Both.
The Grand Island Independent en-
tiers upon its eleventh volume. Ii
is one Of the best local papers in
the State, and Mr.. and Mrs. Mobley
deserve well of their patrons.
From Constantinople we have the
news that Sulieman Pasha's appeal
has been rejected. He has been de-
graded and exiled for life, and now
appeals 10 the Sultan for pardon.
j. III. CALDWELL, living at South
Byfield, Mass, while kneeling in
family prayer on the evening of the
3lst ult., was instantly killed by his
insane wife who split his head open
with an axe.
IT was reported in this city Mon
DAY morning that seven of the men
who lynched and burned Mitchell
and Ketchum had been captured at
Plum Greek, and are now confined
in Jail st kearney.
AN other heavy snow storm was
prevailing on the Sd in Scotland
and quite cold. Outdoor labor was
again interrupted. In France a
general and rapid thaw took place,
causing the rivers to overflow, and
much damage has been done.
DR. S. L. Brooks, of Greenville,
=. 4.