The Columbus journal., 1879-11-26
THE JOURNAL.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. s6, 1879.

LAST year State census shows
population OF 3lS,74S.
The track on the l.. 4 \. w. was
expected to reach Ulysses last week
A VERY severe snow storm pre-
vailed last week along Lake Cham
plain.
NEBRASKA can well sustain 4 pop
ulation ten times as great as at
present.
ABOUT four million dollars of
foreign specie will arrive in New
York this week.
Coal last week took a suddes
rise in Lincoln of one dollar On the
ton, selling at S6.
IT was showing in London and
New York, on the Goth. Storm sig-
mails were all along the coast.
No less than niae hundred Chin
ese left San Francisco on the 18th
inst, on the Peking for China.
DoS CAMERON will probably sue
ceed TO the craftsmanship OF the
national Republican committee.
AT Berlin a very severe snow
storm was falling on the 23d, with
every indication of a hard winter.
FORTY colored families left Dallas,
Texas, on the 10Th for Kansas. They
travel in twenty covered wagons.
The marriage of King Alfonso
and Dutchess Maria Christine, of
Austria will be solemnized on the
18TH.
GIN. GRANT will attend the re-
union OF the Grand Army of the
Republic at Harrisburg on the 10Th
prox.
AFLEET OF tug boats and dredges
were sunk on Lake Ontario last
week, and twenty-five persons
drowned
BUSINESS prospects are good in
every portion of the United States,
while in the old country, the poor
are suffering.
A VERY dangerous $40 ieSal-teu-
der counterfeit note is in circulation,
issue OF 1875. letter c. Our advice
il to letter be.
THE noted James boys are living
in the vicinity of Sherman, Texas,
aud for several wears have been cuI-
tiyating the soil.
THE iron steamer Palias that left
Copenhagen last week, bound for
Amsterdam, is believed to have
faundered off Heiniskirk.
AT Wilmington, y. C., sash and
blind factory, lumber, rosiD, and
spirits of turpentine, valued at Sl0,-
600 were burned on the I'D.
The English press unanimously
commend the action of the Govern
Ineut iu arresting NJ. Davitt ana j.
DAILY, the Irish rent agitators.
DELAWARE still clings to the prac-
tice of the whipping post. Five
prisoners were whipped the other
day, each receiving twenty lashes.
From Augusta, Ga, we learn that
il showed for over three hours on
the 10Th, and was the heaviest fall
of snow known in the vicinity for
years.
The SHOWS in the Province of Ma.
rine, France, have driven the wild
beasts from the forests, and the
wolves are destroying the peasants
fiocks.
COUNTESS MoNTIIo, mother oi
ex-Empress Eugenie, died at Alba
palace on the 2ith. Eugene did not
arrive in time TO see her mother
living.
The steamer Algeria from Liver
pool brought on the 10Th to New
York f330,735 in specie, and the
Gellert from Hamburg. $4,000 il
French gold coin.
KANSAS paper announces L. 5
Grant for President, and Gov. st
John for Vice President. We dom
like TO give up Vice President
Wheeler in any event.
Mrs. BUCKMISsTEE. OF Chicago
gas deprived last week by her hus
band OF the usc of morphine: she
became melancholy over the loss
and shot herself fatally.
STowpEG HINES. colorcd mar
living nesr Lawrence, Nan, recent
ly shot and killed Samuel Odell
Great excitement prevails Ia th'
aeighborhood against Hines.
The body OF = man was tskeI
frcm The bay at the battery, New
York. the other day. His hand'
were tied behind his back, aud ;
bsRdage bound tightly over his eyes
a NE iirr Saturday night at Farm
ins;ou, Ninn., DESTROYED twenty
buildings, Including large grain
elevator. The loss will reach 800,
eo0 sai is supposed 10 ha the worl
OF an incenjiary.
AvANG opposed TO the vigilante!
at Leadville, Col, have threatened L
burn The city. aud great eXciiemen