The Columbus journal., 1879-01-01
THE JOURNAL.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. l, 1879.

as far south as Louisville, KY.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN JONES, OF Penn,
was frozen to death on the night ol
the 25th.
IT is stated that the eastern mails
arrived at Chicago on the 26th ult.,
on time, for the first that week.
HoBBs Bios. machine shops al
Wheeling, w. w., were burned on
the night of the oath. The loss will
be about $4,000.
The snow is reported to be four
feet deep at Oswego. n. Y, and
vicinity, and all the local roads have
been abandoned.
The secretary of the treasury on
the 26th ult. received all the silver
bullion he desired, at prices below
London quotations.
Forty EIGHT children were
drowned by the breaking Of ice on
pond at Chapel Moch, Paris.
Christmas.
The appointment of M. B. Hoxie,
Esq, Register of the land Office at
Grand Island, Neb., has been con-
firmed by the Senate.
The Globe Touring mills, at Buff
falo, and Niagara Mills, at Black
Rock, were burned on the 26th ult.
Loss estimated at $4,000.
ROBBERS attacked train for Vera
Cruz, near Pueblo, on the l4th ult.,
and killed the baggage master,
wounded the conductor, and escap-
ed with s27, 900 in silver.
The English soldiers occupied
Jellalabad on the 23d. Yakoob is in
authority at Cabul. Anarchy pre-
walls. Yakoob Yahoo has been
proclaimed Chief Of the Afghans.
SEVERE snow storm at Buffalo on
the 23d. 1t is stated that fully three
feet has fallen on a level, and badly
drifted. Hundreds of cars loaded
with stock are detained.
A MAN by the name of Mayhem
while drunk walked into the Mis-
souri, river on the night of the 26th
ult., at Nebraska City, and was
drowned.
A BARGE loaded with oil was
burned at Stenbenville, Ohio, on the
26th ult. The steamer at the land
ing was saved by the fire depart
ment of the city.
LAST week il Is reported that
many persons who sent gold coupons
TO the Treasury for payment re-
quested the same TO be paid in
greenbacks instead of gold.
Two young men attending a
Christmas festival near Quincy, ILL.,,
quarrelled, when McFadden drew a
pistol and shot Scott through the
heart. McFadden fed and has not
been captured.
TIE remains of Luther Mitchell,
who was so horribly tortured and
burned alive in Custer county, ar
rived at Central City on the 2Sth
and were to be inferred at that place
on the 18th.
q The governor of Kansas has
asked the general government for a
strong military force to be placed on
the southern border of the state to
hold the Indians in check on their
reservations.
1T is stated in a recent number OF
the Denver Nescs that the Union
Pacific II. II. Co. has purchased OF
Gilmore & Salisbury the stage line
between the Ogden aud Montana
X. X. and Helena.
The weather at Chicago has been
very rough and cold. The snow
drifting has blockaded the roads, and
travel by rail is almost suspended.
In Chicago the range for two DAYS
was from four TO nineteen below.
THE committee under Senator
Blaineis resolutions TO investigate
election frauds have adjourned until
the meeting of congress after the
holidays, when the Senate will be
asked to toprovide funds to pay ex-
penses.
ARCHBISHOP PURCELL has asked OF
the Pope TO be relieved from his
arduous duties on account of his ad.
vanced age. He gave an explana-
ton of his financial affairs, which
appeared TO give satisfaction TO his
81 hearers.
AT Ceara, Brazil, the smallpox is
reported 10 be very fatal i'm that
D.. province. 1t is stated i'm telegram
from that place that six hundred
81 deaths occur in the capital daily.
The distress among the people in
the interior is appalling.
PETER MCNAMARA died at Wash.
ington on the 26th ult., from the
;effects of poison in his system oc-
cssioned by the bite of man named
Donoher, with whom he had an al
tercation two months previous TO
bis death.
The Louisiana politicians, ii is
reported, state that they are conf
dent that the president will within
a very short time make a clean
sweep OF all Federal officials in tha {
State, and appoint in their places
more decided Republicans.
THERE is trouble in the New York
World office on account of -educ-
ton in wages and the discharge on
the night OF the 26th ult., ofall COM
positors, and a force of new hands
marched into the composing rooms.
Much excitement prevails. The
door and stairway are guarded and
!. lined with policemen.
NAsBY settled the question of the
right of the negro TO vote i'm the
south ia very satisfactory manner
10 himself. lie says, 1.-The nigger has
the right TO vote. We understand
and respect il. But there must be
limiiashuns. He may vote--the law
says thst-but the law don't say how
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