The Columbus journal., 1880-12-15

"Boss" STOUT wants an eAlenslon
O. time on his cspitol-wing contract.
TgE harvest so entirely failed in
Macedonia that wheat has to be
shipped from America
THF corpse of &. +. Noss was Ia
ken from the cemetery at Omaha
one night last week.
&c. CALLAHAN was hanged al
Wooster, Ohio, last week for the
murder of Benjamin Tormie.
President HAYES last week is
sued an order placing Gen. Irwin
Mcdowell on the retired list.
A FIFTY dollar note of the series
of 1875 is said to be in circulation,
aud well calculated to deceive.
IT issstaied that the President of
Buenos Ayres offers free lands TO
fifty thousand Irish emigrants.
LFADvII.LE shipments of bullion
from the smelters for the month OF
November aggregated 81 ,O32,O26.
JOHN LIVINGSTON, a coal miner at
Oskaloosa, Iowa, chopped to death
with an axe Mrs. Stewart and her
infant son.
o. Il Sr,rr q tramn nrinter
was found last week frozen to death
in am clubhouse at Clifford, Iowa.
He had been on spree for a week.
The liquor dealers association is
raising money for use at Springfield,
H., this winter. Its members claim
that the liquor laws are oppressive.
A RECENT fire in Havre de Grace,
Md, which threatened the destruc-
ton of the town, was checked by
blowing up three buildings.
Mas. KATE CHASE SPRAGUE filed
her petition for divorce last week
at Providence, II. l., alleging cruelty
as the ground for the same.
The court house at Anderson,
Ind, WAS burned on the 10th, with
all the records, legal documents
court papers, etc. The house was
forty years old.
DURING a heavy wind storm last
week the west end of the new shops
Of the Ohio Central railroad at Bu'
cyrus, Ohio, were blown down,
Loss over $1,000.
SEVERAL tramps were locked in
the calaboose AT kewanee, H., one
evening last week. Some others at
temnted TO release them; one was
shot dead by the officers.
A LONDON dispatch announces the
intention of the government to arres
Parnell should he attempt to leave
ireland aud take his seat in parlia
ment during the progress of his trial
THE German socialistic exiles who
recently reached New York, wer,
publicly welcomed last week, by {
large assemblage, every one o
whom displayed red silk emblems
ID. J. MCCAIN, an Indian cOntrsc
tor, who has passed through two
trials at Cheyenne for OBTAINING
sugar destined for the BlackfOO
agency, has finally been acquitted
THE indictment against Philip
Byrne. Hart and Post in the More,
forgery case, is thought TO be bad OF
the ground of misjoinder, and |
motion to quash has been interpose,
by counsel.
On the 10th inst, Cincinnati wa
suddenly covered with darkness al
most as dense as at night. Gas jet
were everywhere lighted, and th,
city assumed the appearance of be
ing under cover OF night.
AN express train from New Yorl
on the 9Th struck the carriage of T
Davenport, of Albany, killing Mis-
Harriet Davenport and seriously i'm
juring Mr.. Davenport and a daugh
ter of Rev. J. w. Hyde.
A YOUNG man st Steubenville
Ohio, named VIM. Stein, one da,
last week attempted TO jump on th
Cleveland and Pittsburg freigh
train. missed Lis footing, fell unde
the wheels, and had his hand Gu
of.
MRS. ANNIE MORGAN, wife O
Peter Morgan, of Chicago, wa
found on the morning of the ST
near her residence frozen TO death
She was addicted to liquor, an,
went out TO get some during th
night.
The worlds fair. commission ha
adopted report recommending tn
lnwood site for the exhibition o
1853. The sight is about eight mile
ont on the New York Central An,
Hudson River railroad and contain
$50 acres.
FRANCES WHITE, an old man six
ty-two years old, living at Fremon
this state, from some cause becOmin,
tired Of life, one night last weel
placed his shotgun to his head ant
fired il of, blowing nearly one hal
of his head away.
THE Christiancy divorce case ha
come to a sudden halt. The evi
d-nce that was expected on the par
l..