The Columbus journal., 1880-03-17
Two riots at Quebec last summer
cost the city $4,000.

The British ministry have ADVISED
the Queen to dissolve parliament
THE Union Pacific company In
February sold 26, 1851 acres of land
for 26,2OO.2l.
PARSELL sailed for Europe last
Thursday, but will return to Amer
ica after election.
RoBT. JERRARD, lawyer of Koch
ester, n. Y, while intoxicated, shot
a man named Rice.
THE body of DIR. Samuel Hahs' OF
New York, was cremated at WASH
iugton Penn, on the 9Th.
REPORTS from the interior of Buba
estimate the sugar crop at about
forty per cent. smaller than last
year.
RoprY NJ. JOHNSON, of the firm oi
Johnson g. Barrett, Worcester, Mass,
killed himself last week while in a
saloon.
The senate of Wisconsin on the
10Th inst, concurred in the house
resolution for female suffrage by a
vote of l9 to III.
A STEAMER from Detroit made the
Cleveland harbor on the 9th, bein
the earliest arrival on record by
more than week.
The pastor of the Edwin Ray
Methodist church at indianapolis
has been charged by the presiding
elder with adultery.
DURING violent storm near St
John, N. b. last week, the Schooner
Elbans went ashore. Seven oI
eight lives were lost.
FIVE women were elected last
week at Middletown, New York
members of the board of education
and their opponents were men.
SOME planters in the south art
making an effort to obtain Chinese
laborers to supply the place of ne
groes who are leaving in large mum
bers.
PLACARDs have been posted in
prominent places about the city o
San Francisco, warning employer
of Chinese to desist from tina
practice.
A FIRE at Oakland, CAL, last weel
burned the Grand Central hotel ant
two or three other buildings. The
loss on the Grand Central is $3.50,
600, partially insured.
A CoLoRED man giving his testi
mony the other day before thu
voorhees, committee, stated that abou
three thousand people had lef
Louisiana for Kansas.
Mrs. DAVID GRIFFIN, of Norwich
New York, made her will on tn,
morning Of the 18th, and the mex
morning her house burned and sh,
perished in the flames.
The weaving works were burned
at Moscow last week. The eptir
building was destroyed. Twenty
four persons were burned to death
and twenty-nine injured.
THE Omaha Republican says tha
the cheap transcontinental rate o
travelling, will pass 1900 emigrant
through Omaha by rail on Frida,
and Saturday Of this week.
A VERY severe snow storm strucl
New York on the 9th. Storm sig
mails fly at all stations along the coas
from Norfolk up. The wind blew
at the rate of twenty-five miles al
hour.
RECENT valuable mineral discov
cries have been made near the Raw
hide, Wyo. Assays have been mad
of surface rock averaging l25 ounce
of silver and eight dollars in gol
per ton.
IT is stated that the Z. P. r. Il
Co. has been compelled, by order o
the United States district court a
Omaha, to return the wires belong
ing to the Atlantic and Pacific Tel
egraph Co.
A REPORT comes from CONSTANT
nople that the refugees in Easter
Roumelia are i'm a deplorable cor
dition and that unless fresh fund
are provided many persons Wi
perish of hunger.
IRWIN STALL, an old settler {
Seward county, who recently Wen
to Missouri to buy cattle, and ha
with him large sum of money, wa
murdered the other day in Missouri
No particulars given.
The Rocky Mountain Courier, {
q recent date, gives an account of a
active volcano near Browns Parl
the crater, five feet in diameteI
emitting sulphurous smoke, bu
there is no lava as yet.
WIN. w. PECK, of Wyoming, his
been nominated by the Presideu
associate Judge of the supreme cour
of New Mexico, and S. n. Pettis, {
PENNSYLVANIA, associate judge of tb
supreme court of Wyoming.
THos. j. SMALL, a well know
citizen of Otterville, Mo-, was she
the other evening by Jim Crabtre'