The Columbus journal., 1879-02-05
THE JOURNAL.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. s, 1879.
TIE ,Needham Savings Bank at

Boston will close.
The National Marine Bank at
Oswego will close.
The First National Bank OF
Granville Ohio has suspended.
GEN. GRANT and party arrived at
Alexandria, Egypt, on the Both.
The secretary of the treasury has
called for the redemption of an 9TH
er s2O,OOO,OO0 of $40 bonds.
SENATORS elected on the 3lst, In
gals from Kansas, and L. Jones,
Democratic, from Louisiana.
The news from Dublin reports the
burning on the 2Sth of the Mt. Zion
convent, at Waterford, by an in,
cendisry.
THE House of Representative in
Washington has passed bill 70 re-
strict immigration Of the Chinese
into the United States.
S. p. MoBLEY, of the Platte Valley
Independent, has recently been ap-
pointed Postal Clerk in the United
States railway mail service.
Forty thousand dollars has been
appropriated by the house of con-
gress for the establishment of a
Military post at El Paso, Texas.
LATER dispatches from Paris an
nounce the election of NJ. Grevy,
President of the Chamber of
Deputies, as MacMahon's successor.
GERMANY, in order to prevent the
introduction OF the plague, has made
the same prohibition on importations
as Austria, besides manufacturers
of felt.
The house committee on coinage
in Washington il is stated will re-
port favorably on the bill for the
recoinage and redemption of trade
dollars.
News from London under date Of
the 2Sth says that seven thousand
miners are idle i'm Durham county.
The distress is unequaled since the
great strike in 1914.
WE learn from the Omaha Repub-
Licon that Mary A. Miser died
Wednesday night Goth ult., of
typhoid pneumonia, al the residence
of her sister, Mrs. j. III. Lacey.
SENATOR CHRIsTIANCY was nOmi-
mated by the president on the 29th
rs minister to Peru. His nomina-
ton was unanimously confirmed,
and without the usual reference.
SENATOR PADDOCK, from the pub
lie lands committee, reported favor
ably on The bill TO extend the time
ofpre-emptors on public lands. The
report was placed on the calendar.
THE remains of Bayard Taylor are
expected to arrive in New York
soon, and when they do will be in
state i'm the governors room in the
city hall, until removed to Pennsyl-
vania.
III is stated in a dispatch from
Paris under date of the 29th that
President Mcmahon has rendered
his resignation. No action reported
on his resignation by the chambers
10 elect a President.
A ooLoRED man by tie name of
j. ID. Mcleod was recently appoint
ed store-keeper at Covington, Ken
tucky, being the first of his race
who ever received an appointment
of the kind in that state.
SENATOR SAUNDERS reports a dis
agreement in the committee on the
transfer of the Indian bureau, and
presented section of a new bill
transferring certain tribes to the con-
strol of the War Department.
IT is stated that the excess of our
exports over imports for December,
1878, were S35,l2S,OOO; for the year
1878, $304,542,000. That is, If true,
a splendid showing, and, if contin-
ued, one the country will soon feel
benefcially.
M. A. Mcconnell, formerly Of
Cadiz, Ohio, is now publisher of The
Charleston Qll.) Plaindealer. Mr..
Mcconnell has heretofore been sue
cessful in other departments of busi-
ness and doubtless will be so in his
new enterprise.
IT is claimed that certain parties
have made a mistake in the amount
of the note cancelled by the Lancas-
ter county bank in consideration of
the deposit of state funds by the
late treasurer Mcbride, being 1894,
80 instead of sl9,03499.
"WILD HoG," the Cheyenne chief,
DOW imprisoned at Ft. Robinson,
rather than go south attempted su-
icide, by stabbing himself in four
places in the region of the heart.
The surgeon pronounces the wounds
very dangerous, if not fatal.
1T is stated by authority that after
the LIST Of April next there viii be a
reduction of 10 per cent. in allow
ances to post-offices of the first and