The Columbus journal., 1879-02-26
THE JOURNAL.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. Dc, 1879.

SIS per tom
jar GouLp is ready again to be
quoted as bankrupt.
Has the daily NonpareH at Kear-
ney kicked the bucket?
WEST INDIAN advices report an
other revolution in Hayu.
The Bank OF Oswego has gone
into the hands of receiver.
SIX inches of snow I'm London and
vciniity on the night Of the 10th.
SoMr one claims that $4,000 tons
Office have been put up in Omaha.
THERMOMETER ct Toronto, Ont,
on the 2lst, marked 3Se below zero.
HENRY EGGE, one of Hall coun-
ty's pioneers, died Monday of last
week. t..s
Zach CHANDLER was elected Uni
ted States Senator fiom Michigan
on the 18th.
The British forces In Africa will
retain their position on the border
until reinforced.
CHAs. b. Fox, Oxford, Neb., has
been appointed and confirmed reg
lister of the land Office.
A BILL for the relief of homestead
settlers on the public lands has been
passed in the u. S. senate.
The prohibitionists of Ohio met
in State convention On the Goth and
nominated full State ticket.
The loss of the bark Hawthorn
costs the insurance companies of
Boston not less than sl62,0 .
FIVE bodies were stolen on the
night of the 10Th from the dead
house Of ST. Eustache, Quebec.
The French Atlantic cable is bro
ken 16l miles from St. Pierre
Miguelon in 500 fathoms Of water.
Mr.. BARsBY, a deaf and dumb
man, was run into near Logan, Iowa,
the other day. He will not recover
from his injuries.
Ex-MAYoR WEsTERvELT, OF New
York, aged 79 died on the 2lst. 1t
is stated that he was the builder of
la sea-going vessels.
WITHIN the past two weeks six
teen persons have died of smallpox
at Fairbury, and still ten or twelve
more persons down with it.
FEES, the young man who was run
over by the cars at Lincoln last
week and who had both feet ampn-
tated, died at noon on the l7ih.
Two thousand Christians at San
Francisco by rising vote, petition
President Hayes to sign the bill for
restriction of Chinese immigration.
The Italian government has pro-
hibited the importation OF American
swine or any preparation of their
flesh, as a precaution against trich-
inosis.
FORGED drafts on the First Ma
tionsl Bank at st. Paul are i'm circu-
lation, and attempts have been made
in Missouri and New York 10 nego-
tiate them.
Or course, Representative T. c.
Ryan, and ID. c. Loveland, and Sem
ator j. L. Clarkson worked and
talked and voted against the $4,000
capital -steal."
The English labor troubles appear
10 be on the increase, there being on
the l1th no less than 5000 weavers
out Of employment at Macclesfeld,
ON account of depression in trade.
LII is stated in the news from Ber.
lin, under date of the 18th, that the
Moscow Journals were not allowed
TO appear Friday until they sup
pressed untavorable plague news.
OuRexchanges represent the King
OF Burmah as an imperial butcher
believing that two Princes were
plotting against his life, he caused
their execution. with So relatives.
LAST Saturday little Frank Carter
aged III years, son of Mrs. R. G..
Carter, widow, residing iu Omaha,
broke through the ice and was car
crried under the ice and drowned
A RAILROAD train fell through a
bridge near Selma, Georgia, on the
18th, killing two persons and Sc.
verely injuring ten or twelve 9th.
ers. The train was o perfect wreck
The heaviest snow storm for five
years occurred at Halifax on the
2lst, and continued all day. Drift:
In places are fifteen feet deep. Busi.
ness completely suspended. Rail.
ways are blocked.
REPRESENTATIVE CLARK of Polk
county voted against the capitol sp-
preparation "steal" while Senator
kimmel of the same county voted
for il. Which Of them represented
the will of the people?
JAMES McELvoY, who murdered
Henry Stultzmsn near Hastings. has
been found guilty and sentenced tc
be hanged May s6th. He was con.