The Columbus journal., 1879-07-02
THE JOURNAL.
WEDNESDAY, JULY ,, 1873.

work on the Des Moines and Knox
willie railroad.
THE- Khedive of Egypt abdicates
the throne, and will be succeeded by
his son, Prince Fewfik.
ANOTHER judicial-expenses bill
passed the house on the Goth ult.,
and was sent TO the senate.
TAYLOR & CRoTE, lumber dealers
at Buffalo, n. Y, lost by fire last
week $4,000 worth of lumber.
The President has approved the
army appropriation bill and placed
his veto upon the judicial-expenses
bill. ....,s
WALLING, police superintendent
of New York, said recently that the
body of A. L. Stewart had not been
found.
A YOUNG man arrived few days
ago in Cedar Rapids, Ia, with S2O,-
9O0on his person, the result of going
TO Leadville.
ALBERT WEBER, of New York, a
piano manufacturer, died last week,
leaving at estate worth from $500,
600 to $4,000.
BLACKINsoN's woolen mills lOcat-
cd at North Adams, Mass, were
damaged by fire Oh the 2Sth, TO the
extent CT $4,000.
ID. Il. CoRBIN, nominated by the
President for chief justice of the
supreme court of Utah, has been
rejected by the senate.
G.. II. LdNKE's jewelry store In
Providence was robbed on the night
of the 9th, of jewelry and watches
to the amount OF $4,000.
Mrs. BELLA DAVIS, charged with
numbering her husband, had her
trial the other day at Omaha: the
verdict was "not guilty."
TnE southern extension of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe has
reached La Junta, New Mexico,
eight miles south of Otero.
WE learn from the Lincoln Jour
nal that L. L. Taylor, of Norfork,
has been appointed steward of the
hospital for the insane, at Lincoln.
THE schooner Cummings, which
arrived ~ New York or the Goth
ult., from Para, lost her captain and
two seamen on the voyage, from
yellow fever.
KANSAS, IN numerous localities, is
suffering for rain, and in Texas
severe drought exists, so much so
that the cattle suffer for the want Of
grass and water.
The strikers at the wooden mills
at Providence, last week, resumed
work, with the exception OF the
Flint, and this mill is making ar
rangements to start soon.
BY way of Paris, under date of the
25ih ult., we have news TO the effect
that the insurrection in Algeria is
ended, and four thousand insurgents
are in the hands of the French.
The negro exodus was made the
subject in the senate the other day
of a warm discussion. Mr.. Window,
Mr.. Vance, Mr.. Conkling and Mr..
Davis taking part in the debate.
A VERY severe rain and wind
storm passed over the central part
of Baltimore, Nd, on the 2Sth, del
ugiug the streets in its course and
unroofng about fifty buildings.
The wife and two daughters of
D. MeMasters, of Iowa, were dro wn-
ed last week in consequence Of the
overflow of Deer Greek, from the
terrible rain storm that passed over
that part of the state.
AWAY out at Seattle, Washington
Ty., they talk of JAY Gould's rail-
road operations; also his lines of
steamers, &c, as if the temporal sal
vation of business communities de-
pended upon his will.
THE Lincoln Journal says the
reason why potato bugs are not
bothering Nebraska this year is be-
cause of the great numbers of lady
bugs, who delight in destroying the
eggs of the Colorado beetle.
RECENTLY two more cases of
smallpox were reported in New
York city. They occurred in the
factory where all affected were en-
ployed. The mill has been closed,
and the premises and stock disin-
fected.
SENATOR PADDOCK, on motion,
brought before the senate last week
for a bill extending the provisions
of theE'act for the relief of certain
settlers on public lands" until Oct.
lst, 1850 which act passed the senate
with slight amendment.
Mrs. II. K. MONTGOMERY. of Coun-
Gil Bluffs, was b-utally assaulted in
her fathers yard last week and bea-
ten in a horrible manner. No cause
for the assault is known, but it is sup
posed that they might have been
robbers and her presence frustrated