The Columbus journal., 1880-12-15

Grant upon the retired list Oh 'he
army will probably become a law,
although it will meet with consider
able opposition.
The Board of Charities in Lon
don for November shows that there
are 10000 paupers within the city OF
London, an increase of 1900 over
the same month of last year.
PALINGHI, who ate trichini in sau-
sages the other day in Chicago, died
on the night of the 9TH inst. His
wife and three children who partook
of the same diet are not likely to-
recover.
AN item of news from Dublin
saws two hundred troops have been
sent TO Waterford to preserve order
during the holding of a land meet
ing. Parnell was TO attend the
meeting.
BENNETT, delegate in congress,
has introduced bill TO admit Da-
kota as a state. 1t asks for divis-
ion of the territory, with the ultimate
intention of making two states.
GILLETTE, of Iowa, offered a res
olution in the house calling upon
the secretary of war for an estimate
of the cost of a steel-rail road from
New York to Council Bluffs.
PARNELL, in his speech at the
Waterford land meeting, declared
that nothing short of making the
tiller of the soil its owner could put
down the agitation in Ireland.
ORB HENDRICKs was murdered
last week in Todd county, Mimi,
while out hunting with his brother,
by three men with whom he had a
difficulty about deer that had been
killed. The body was found with
three bullet holes and several knife
wounds i'm it.
A STATEMENT is published at Fort
Scott, Kansas, denying the destitu-
ton aud suffering of her citizens in
any very large numbers, but admit
ing individual cases among the new
settlements; the state however is
fully able TO take care of all needy
persons if applied TO those soliciting
aid are dead beats.
THE grand jury at New York last
week presented indictments against
Joseph Hart, Louis A. Post, Ken
ward Philip and Joseph A. Byrne,
for publishing in the Truth crimi-
nal libel on Gen. Garfield. An in
dictment was also presented against
Samuel S. Morey for perjury.
THE body of a well-dressed man
was found in field few miles from
Gibson, H., with a bullet hole in bis
breast and a revolver lying near,
with one chamber empty. A drove
of swine had eaten the flesh from his
face and hands. Ii was decided by
the coroner's jury that the man had
committed suicide.
THE prohibition bill, passed by the
Vermont Legislature, is very strin-
gent in its provisions, making any
place of resort where liquor is sold
or given away, or where gambling
is allowed, a nuisance, and the place
is shut up, the keeper being fined
from 500 to $500 and imprisoned foi
three months.
LINCOLN had quite fire on the
llth, destroying one saloon, a har.
ness shop, a drug store and a second.
hand store. One man was badly
injured by jumping from burning
building TO save his life. The fire
originated in one of the old frame
buildings east Of the government
square, and at one time threatened
the Commercial hotel.
AMONG those arrested the other
day at Council Bluffs, charged with
robbing the baggage of passengers
appears the name of VIM. Heaton
conductor John N. Clark, Franz
Baxter, Charles Hauster and John
Veasey, ex-messengers, and George
johnson. The officers i'm charge
took the prisoners to Kansas City
where they will be tried.
T SENATOR PADDOCK on the 9th pre-
sented a petition for the extension O.
copyright to foreign authors. On
his motion the senate bill providing
for the sale of the reservation of the
Otoe Indians in this state, and fol-
other purposes was taken up and
passed. The proceeds of the sale to
be placed to the credit of the trib,
and a new reservation selected.
From London we have the report
that her msjesty's ship Valorou'
would soon start for the south o.
ireland with small arms and ammu.
milton, bucksbot, aud steam pima.
cles armed with n-pounders fol
river transit. The marines to be
sent to ireland are exchanges, and
are not intended to increase the
strength there. Two hundred men
OF the artillery will go with the
marines to Ireland.
A RECENT decision rendered by
Judge Dundy i'm the United States