The Columbus journal., 1880-12-29

TRooPs and policemen were stlil
going into ireland last week.
QUEEN VICTORIA recently engaged
in dancing reel at Balmoral.
Snow fell last week in Richmond,
Va, TO the depth OF five inches.
TWENTY-FIVE persons perished in
the recent gale on Pleasant Bay.
THE iron trade at Pittsburg last
week experienced marked revival
THr weight of the snow in North
ern Virginia is breaking down the
trees.
The English sparrows are dying
in New York, from some unknown
cause.
A NEW town located on the Bes-
YER in Furnas county, has been
named Garfield.
A BILL has passed the house at
Washington to establish an assay
Office at st. Louis.
MALIGNANT diphtheria has pros
trsted seven persons in one family
at Metamors, Ill.
FORTY thousand government SOL
diers are scattered about at different
points in Ireland.
OLIVE, the man burner, has paid
out $4,000 i'm getting the new trial
iust granted him.
WENDELL PHILLIPS has been APP
pointed executor of the will OF
Lydia Maria Child.
THE post-ofiice department OF
London has ordered 10000 telephon-
es for postal service.
The Russian feet now lying in
Chinese waters will be reinforced
by twelve torpedo cutters.
UNION square to twenty-eight
street New York, is now nightly
Illuminated by electricity.
THE recent drop i'm wheat caused
the suspension of three grain COM
mission houses in Chicago.
ALL the business portion of Elk.
hart, Texas, was destroyed by fire
on the morning of the 18th.
A BILL will soon be introduced
in the house by Mr.. Morton to wipe
away the war taxes on banks.
An Ohio farmer was robbed o.
$1,000 while standing on the steps
of banking house in Cincinnati.
SITTING BULL arrived last weei
at the mouth of Milk river, on hi'
way 10 surrender at Fort Buford.
JUDGE LEVI PARSONS, of NY, hai
given $4,000 to be used for the ben
fit of the students of Union College
ANDREW BEAL, colored man o
St. Louis, shot and killed Pat Crew
Christmas eve. No particular
given.
A DOCTOR in Western New Yorl
cures all diseases by immersion IN
cold water. He is known as canal
opath.
TBE great clock in the Victori'
tower of the parliament building
London, has been lighted by elec
tricity.
Mr.. DowNING, a justice of th,
peace in County Mayo, had TO fie'
to Dublin for having served writs o
ejectment.
PITTsBURG, Pa, on the 23d wa
enveloped in darkness so intens'
that the business houses were light
ed by gas.
A MAN exhibited the other day OF
change at Cincinnati, a sspphir'
valued at $4,000, taken from I
Georgia mine.
GEO. W. CARLISLE, a sporting maj
of Columbus, o., shot fatally, las
week, p. Lyon, who was about t.
arrest Carlisle.
ABOUT 100000 gallons of win,
have been produced in California
the present year, being double tn,
amount of last.
PRESIDENT HAYES, Secretary Ev
arts and Gen. Sherman went to New
York last week to attend a New
England dinner.
KATE CHASE SPRAGUE's petition
for divorce charges her husband
with adultery, extreme cruelty snC
neglect to provide.
The death of the duchess of West
minister was announced last week
In her day she was a regular beauty
of the British court.
OK account of the disturbed con
dition of ireland the empress o
Austria has given up her hunting
box in the Green Isle.
Gov. FOSTER, of Ohio, has yielded
to the solicitations of his friends
and Withdrawn from the contest fol
the Ohio senatorship.
THE Vermont legislature befort
adjourning passed bill to tax tel
egraph and express companies in
point of gross earnings.
B.F. ALLISON, an active bnsines,
man of Normal, H., has the second