The Columbus journal., 1880-10-06

S. NJ. WAITE was arraigned last
week st'Bellows Falls, VT, on eight /
indictments and plead not guilty 10
each. He is charged with larceny,
forgery and the negotiation of forg-
ed notes.
The daughter of ex-president
Zachary Taylor was laid $l6,OOO
last week, the'bslsnce %, ,the salary
which Gen. Taylor would have re-
ceived had he lived until his term
of office expired.
OK the 9th ult at Jscksboro, Tex,
immense swarms of grssshoppers
appeared comingffrom the north, at
times obscuring the sun. Farmers
nesrthst place are demoralized even
cotton stalks are being destroyed.
Tom MCGIFF. desperado, who |
brutally assaulted citizen of Lin
coin a short time since, was captured |
the other day at Red Oak, Iowa.
He will be brought to Lincoln, and
most likely receive his just deserts. !
SENATOR BLAINE while on his
road to Wheeling expressed Last
week the opinion that the result of
the election in his state would not be
known until after the November
election, and that il would be all
right.
WILLIE MAYER, q young man near
Detroit, while trying to climb over
a threshing machine last week, fell
into the cylinder, and was drawn in
to the hips, and most horribly man
gled. He died in ak hours after
the accident.
OGLEsBY, MOORE & Co.'S. large pa
per mill at Middletown, Ohio, was
burned one morning last week. The
loss was very heavy, and the fire
was especially calamity on account
Of the recent death of w. NJ. Moore,
the head OF the firm.
MRS. GRo. HAMILTON. OF San
Francisco, on the Cd inst, sent a
note to her husband asking an in
terview. He called. and during the
conversation she shot him dead.
She had previously separated from
him on account of jealousy.
BISHOP SIMPSON, while delivering
his sermon at the First Methodist
church In San Francisco, Sunday
week. was suddenly seized, before
the immense audience, with sickness
and compelled to stop. President
and Mrs. Hayes were In the audience.
DYER ID. LuM, assistant secretary
ofthe national green-back-labor par.
ty, has resigned his position. He
charges the party leaders with
treachery, and says that Gen. Wea-
ver's expenses for campaigning are
borne by the republican national
committee.
COLLECTOR CLARK at Atlantic,
Ga, reports to Washington last
week that q party of thirty armed
men entered Dalton, Whitfield co.
and forcibly rescued property seiz-
ed for violations of the revenue laws.
The government should see to il
that the laws be faithfully executed,
as strictly in one locality rs another.
Gov. ST. JOHN of Kansas issued on
the 29th ult., on the request of the
county attorney of Labette county,
a requisition for the Bender family.
IL is not known on what state the
requisitiOu is made, but the COVER
nor declares his belief that no mis-
take has been made this time, and
that the Benders have really been
found.
HANCoCK's letter on Rebel claims
was intended particularly for the
northern trade; the sentiments were
sound enough, but the fact that the
letter does not make itself very nu-
merOus in the newspapers of the
south, where the dominant portion
of the democracy lives, is sufficient
proof of the object for which the
epistle was called into being. As in
Tilden's case four years ago, 1t will
not be sufficient.
| GEs. GRANT presided at the great
meeting at Warren, Ohio, on the
2Sth, and made ht first political
speech, giving bis views at length
on the importance just at this juno
ture of supporting and keeping the
f republican party in control OF gov
, ernmental affairs. Senator Conk'ing
, and Logan followed Gen. Grant,
making powerful speeches to the
enthusiastic audience numbering at
least 1900 people.
: The democratic state convention
!, held at Hastings last Wednesday
e made. the following nominations.
Presidential electors, j. z. BoydsB,
4 |. Hinman and V. Vifquain; com
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