The Columbus journal., 1880-12-08
WEDNESDAY, DEC. s, lSs0.

QUEEN VICTORIA recently held I
state council at Windsor.
GEN. GARFIELD returned to hiI
home from Washington last week.
THE state fish hatchery at Boyn,
Falls, Mich, was destroyed last weet
by a food.
The ice broke in the Volga las
week, destroying five steamers ano
thirty bsrges.
THE last of the twenty-feur bodies
lost in the Hudson river tunnel have
been recovered.
In appears that Lieut.. Gov. Robin
son OF Colorado, lost his life by al
accidental shot from a guard.
THIRTY thousand dollars i'm silver
certificates were exchanged last
week at Washington for gold.
J.B. TAYLOR has been elected tO
ill the vacancy in the house created
by Gen. Garfeld's resignation.
The chamber of commerce at New
York have adopted resolution CAL
ling for national bankrupt law.
GERMANY, France and the United
States are arranging for another
conference on the silver question.
The West Point post-ofiice this
state has been raised TO the grade OF
presidential" with 100 salary.
ONE hundred more exiled German
socialists have reached New York,
where employment has been secured.
SEvENTY-FIvE thousand pounds in
gold were purchased last week in
London for transmission TO Amer
lea.
JAMES SLOAN, indicted for mur-
der, and confined in the Bellefon-
taine, Ohio, Jail, cut his throat with
razor.
RECENT advices from Europe say
that several millions of dollars in
sterling will be shipped to America
in May.
DUNHAM & SoNs, of New York,
the oldest piano manufacturers in
America, have failed; liabilities,
$4,000.
1T is stated that Gladstone will
propose a grant OF $4,000 TO Gen.
Roberts, for his services in the At
CHAN war.
AMONG a dozen or more suicides
reported last week was the leap of
an unknown man from the bridge at
St Louis.
CRAwFoRD's opera house at To-
peka, Kan. which had been reftted
and furnished, was destroyed by fire
last week.
EX-GCv. CAREERS health has so
improved that he will soon return
10 Nebraska. All who know him
will rejoice.
THREE Judges Of election have
been arrested for refusing to take
votes of colored persons who were
legal voters.
Four hundred camels ladened
with stores for the Russian Army,
have fallen into the hands of the
Turcomans.
APPLICATION will be made to the
Canadian parliament for charter
TO lay = cable to Europe, landing at
Sciily Island.
BY the depreciation of their paper
currency, trade in Japan is para
lyzed, and a foreign loan has been
resolved upon.
THE southern fast mail service
delivered the New York dailies last
week IN Richmond, Va, four hours
earlier than before.
THE New York bank statement
shows a balance of Sl05,675 less than
legal requirement: decrease during
the week, s2,047,0O0.
The Disciples are about TO erect
a commodious chapel at Washington
City. Two architects have volun-
teered their services.
JUDGES McCrary and Foster were
bsnqueted last week by the bar of
two hundred Kansas law
yers were in attendance.
THE body of Mrs. Lucia Noyes,
wife of &. II. Noyes, Esq, was Gre
mated the other day at DIR. lie
Moyne's, i'm Pennyslvania.
GES. GARFIELD denies that he has
named single member of his cabi-
net, notwithstanding the report tel
egraphed over the country.
JOIN HAHER and Isaac Morris
were sent TO the penitentiary for
life from Ft. Wayne. Ind, for the
of Barnhardt Myers.
ID. c. MCDONNELL, a lawyer in
Ind, fell on an icy side
walk in that place one night last
week and was instantly killed.
The President has appointed NJ. R.
Barr collector of customs at Erie,
Pa, and A. p. X. Stafford. of Arizo-
na, delegate TO the Worlds fair.
A CREEK delegation are on their
way to Washington City for Greek
Indian interests, and oppose the set
Ilement of whites in Oklahoma.
A FIRsT-CLAss volcano is claimed
10 exist not far from Colorado
Springs. Ii is located near the
summit, and just west of Pixies
Peak.
The African mail steamer brought |
10 Liverpool news of the outbreak |
recently of a horrible war at New |
Calbar, attended with fearful butch
cries.
OVER half a million of silver dol
ars have been recently distributed |
Dy the treasury. The real necessity |
,f the hour is stronger pantaloons
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