The Columbus journal., 1879-06-04
THE JOURNAL.
WEDNESDAY. JUNE (. 1879.

GA lis iarfn.
InE National Republican puts the
case thus: The Army or the Mob!
Bayoneis or shotguns, which!
TRAY LEE and Edward Anderson
were executed on the 18th ult., at
Sacramento, tor the murder of John
Tulis.
TuE schooner William Thompson
has been lost with crew OF four
teen men. They leave seven wild
ows aud twelve orphans.
Jonx KING and Walter Swan
while crossing 'the Niagara river in
n small boat last week lost their
balance and were drowned.
Ar Bakerfeld, CAL, on the 2Sth
ult. seventy-five men entered the
Jail and lynched Thomas and Will
lam Youkum, The murderers of
johnson and Tucker.
A srEcIAL dispatch from Chicago
announces that the Little Pittsburg
consolidated mining company, of
I,eadville, was on the 23d ult., stock
cd for twenty millions.
No less than FIVE of the Thames
bridges in England have been freed
of tolls and still across the free Mis-
souri,, in Democratic America the
u. p. taxes up its high rates.
The observance of Memorial Day
and the sirewing of the graves of
our fallen heroes with flowers on the
30th ult., was almost universally OBJ
served throughout the U. S.
IIoN. +. c. INGERsoLL, promi-
nent lawyer. and brother of Col. II.
Ingersoll, died very suddenly OF
heart disease, at his residence i'm
Washington City, on the 3lst ult.
MT. ErNA on the 29th ult., was in
full and terrible eruption, thrO wing
out streams of lava, which is flowing
down the western slope, threatening
several villages with destruction.
THE Washington House at Hagers-
town. was burned on the morning OF
the 29lt ult. One person was burned
TO death and a great many others
badly injured, some of them fatally.
We learn that the bonds for Grand
Island and Hastings railroad, an ex-
tension of the s. Joe & ID. G. rail-
way, were carried by a large ma
jority last week. The people are
jubilant.
THE Omaha Republicans special
local reports from twenty or more
counties of the State relative TO
crop prospects give general average
Of more acres and indications favor
able for good crops.
STRICTLY partizan Legislation
without reference TO the good of the
people, is a curse and a blight upon
any government. The people should
remove all men from place who arc
engaged in such work.
Cart. CHAs. BRIDGES, late assist.
ant doorkeeper of the senate. was
removed the other day on fifteen
minutes notice, TO give place to Gen
&. NJ. Wilcox, who commanded ;
division in Longstreet's corps.
MCDoNALD stabbed Hollingswortf
with a cigar knife in the breast, il
the Nebraska penitentiary last week
They are both convicts. 1t is be-
lieved that Hollingsworth is in {
critical condition aud may no
recover.
PRESIDENT HAYES sent to tho
House on the 29th ult. his message
vetoing the bill making appropria.
tions for the legislative, executive
and judicial expenses of the govern.
mcnt for the fiscal year ending June
3Oth, 1850, and for other purposes.
SUP'T. TowNE of the A. & n. Il. II
recently made a contract for 100 car
of hard coal at Chicago at $3.G5 ;
ton, which will be sold at Lincoln
for $500 ton. The "hard-coaiers
arc determined TO compete with Ft
Scott and other "softs" for the trade
AT Island Pond, VT, last week
twenty-seven children were poison
cd by drinking water from brool
where dead animals had been depos
tied and potatoe tops that had beer
poisoned with Paris Green. Ten o.
twelve of the children have alread,
died and others cannot 1--we.
JUDGE DUNDY recently decided
the case of c. III. Reed, of New
York, against the city of Platts
mouth, TO recover the interest on 6
number of bonds issued ia 1872, fo
the construction of a high school
holding and ruling i'm effect that th,
bonds were illegally Issued anC
therefore void.
The Ohio State Republican con
vention, in session at Cincinnati OF
the 2Sth ult., nominated the follow
ing ticket: For Governor, Hon
Charles Foster; Lieut.. Governor
Andrew Hickenlooper; Judge til,
Supreme Court, w. w. johnson
Attorney general, George Il. Nash
Auditor of State. John +. Oglevec
III. p. PERA, a native of Teterville
Ont performed a foolhardy fea
last week by jumping from the new
suspension bridge, at Niagara Falls
into the boiling waters of Niagari
river. and coming out safe anC
sound. This beats the celebrated
leap of Sam Patch who jumped IA,
feet and came out all right, bu
shortly afterwards lost his life il
jumping the Genesee Falls at Roch
ester. Ii is stated that Pera will
repeat this daring leap on the Al
of July next.
NATHANIEL W. THAYER, a wealth,
Bostonian, owns 1900 out of 800
shares of the Atchison & Nebraski
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