The Columbus journal., 1880-12-29

Catholic IiquOr-dealers OF Richmond
Va, to sign a pledge to close their
saloons on Sunday.
Hon. A. S. HEwETT joins in call
for a public meeting Of the demo-
Gratis i'm New York to re-organize
the party i'm that city.
R.C. WALDEN, chief engineer of
the fire department of North Adams,
Mass, has been held to bail for at
tempts to burn the town.
Mr.. SPARKS and Weaver were
permitted to make apologies to the
house for their unjustifiable conduct
in debate, which they both did.
MRS. BERGMAN, the pretty Phil
adelphian, has consented to return
home On condition that she be not
forced to live with her husband.
A COMMISSIONER has been ap-
pointed by the court in New York
in the Christiancy divorce case to
take the testimony of Edil Giro.
BzRNHARDT travelled the other day
from Boston to New Haven, in a
private car, wi hich has been chartered
for her use throughout her tour.
INVESTIGATIONS are quietly being
made at Fairfield, VT, to discover
if Vice. e-President-electA Arthur was
not really born on Canadian soil.
J.F. MILLER, of Richmond, Ind,
has sold Great Western, the largest
trotting horse in the world, TO a
gentleman of st. Louis, for Sl 900.
ANOTHER commission house in
Chicago has closed, making the
fourth since the recent fall in the
price of wheat. Liabilities, $780,
600.
THE Lsnd.league meeting held
last week at Mullinger, Ireland, was
attended by ten thousand people.
The town was gsily set of with
flags.
In will not be long before Arizo-
ma, Dakota, New Mexico, Idaho,
Washington and Wyoming terrific
ries will be asking for admission as
states.
SECRETARY THOMP SON has retired
from the direction of naval affairs,
and the President directs Secretary
Ramsey to assume charge dd in
terim.
FRANCIS t. BUCKLAND, the Eng
lish writer on natural history, and
Michael Chasles, the French mathe-
maticisn, have passed to the spirit
world.
WESLEY WEIGH, of Fort Scott,
Kansas, shot and killed Charles
Whitney. The cause alleged was
that Whitney was too intimate with
Welch's wife.
A TELEPHONE company cannot
lawfully discriminate against any
person or corporation in putting up
it's instruments, so decides the su-
preme court of Ohio.
IT is reported from Washington
through their chiefs that the Ponca
Indians are satisfied with their pres
ent location in the Indian Territory,
aud do not desire to return.
FRED. NYE, one Of the editors of
the Omaha Republican and bril-
liant young journalist, is very i'll at
his fathers home in Fremont. He
has had hemorrhage of the lungs.
THE Merchants and Traders Union
of Lincoln have issued a call for a
convention of all those opposed to a
prohibitory liquor law, to meet at
Harmonic Hall, Lincoln, Jan. 9th.
ABOUT 700 carloads of material
for laying forty-three miles Of the
Norfolk track will soon be put in
it's place, and. as soon as the weather
will permit, the track will be CON-
pleted.
EMIL HoYA, a prisoner confined in
the county Jail at Omaha, died
Christmas morning from the effects
of morphine administered by HIM
self the night previous, with suicidal
intent.
THE Vice-President the other day
submitted letter from the secretary
of the interior, calling for SIS, ,30O,O 900
as an additional pension appropria-
ton absolutely required for the cur
rent year.
GEN. r. X. SCoTT, ex-governor of
South Carolina, and now a resident
of Napoleon, Ohio, shot and killed
a young man named Drury. The
trouble originated in quarrel about
Scott's son.
REPORT says another bridge is to
be built across the Missouri at Oma-
ha. 1t 10 intended to pass vehicles
and trains, and persons posted in the
movement predict its completion
within six months.
Would it be possible for the
counties along the Platte, north and
south, to combine in asking the
State 10 establish state roads, taking
in the bridges already constructed as
a part of the scheme?
MANCHESTER, England, is reported