The Columbus journal., 1880-12-01
WEDNESDAY. DEC. 1, 1850.
TBz new Jail at Niobrara received
las. week its first inmate.

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twice.
APARTY of Antelope county hunt.
ers recently killed nine deer and
two elk.
THE insane asylum has been put
in telephone communication with
Lincoln.
ALMoNT BARNES of Vermont has
been appointed United States consul
at Curacao.
FIVE million francs were with
drawn from the bank at Paris on the
9th for America.
The United States has paid in
pensions the last twenty years the
sum of S455, 7lS,505.
EUGENE SCHUYLER will soon enter
upon his duties as minister of the
United States to Servia.
The Turner'S hall in Niobrara is
nearly finished. 1t will be among
the largest in the state.
IT is stated that the proposition TO
vote bonds for a $4,000 courthouse
i'm Lincoln has been defeated.
IT is stated that 400 men were en-
gagged last week in the work of put
ting in the Omaha water-wOrks.
SAM'L +. HARTRANFT, father of
Ex- Gov. Hartranft, of Penn, died
on the 23d ult., of pneumonia, aged
Is years.
The English cabinent had decided
to summon parliament on the 10th
of January, for the dispatching of
business.
PRoF. J. G. WATSON, the eminent
astronomer, died at his residence at
the State University, Wisconsin, on
the 23d ult.
Four railroad accidents occurred
on the 9th ult. near Buffalo, n. Y,
resulting in the probable death of
six persons.
CHARLES Il. WHIPPLE, Southern
correspondent of the Louisville
Commercial, died at Nashville on
the 24th ult.
SOME one in Lincoln is still ad-
ministering poison to the dogs.
Many valuable sporting dogs have
been killed.
A TABLE made from the ship
"Resolute" was received at the White
House last week, a present from
Queen Victoria.
BAILED timothy hay is worth SIS
per ton i'm Cleveland, o. Loose hay
is scarce there, and firm at an adj
vance of these figures.
News from London says the new
Irish land bill will be beyond ques-
ton a genuine and practical effort to
settle the controversy.
A RIOT was reported at RobisOn's
camp, Colorado, on the 2Sth, and
that Lieut.. GovernOr-elect Robson
had been shot and killed.
Two men were killed at the Har-
lem railroad bridge, n. Y, and three
others seriously injured, by the fall
ing of a scaffold, on the 26th.
A RECENT dispatch from Teheran
says it is reported that Abduliah,
ksrdest chief. with a part of his
men has crossed into Turkey.
INDIAN AGENT BERRY at Denver
on the 26th ult. filed bond i'm the
sum of 5000 for his appearance for
trial on the 9th of next April.
The Grand Island Times saws
"Give Us coal or we perish" We
thought men needed something for
their stomach, to keep them alive.
LORD CeLERIDGE, chief Justice of
common pleas, has been appointed
chief justice OF the Queens bench,
rice Sir Alex Cock burn, deceased.
THE building in New York city
occupied by the London and Liver
pool clothing company, was burned
last week, loss estimated at 100000.
AMONG the men arrested the 9TH
er day at Cork for practicing in the
Fenian procession was a soldier.
They have all been committed for
trial.
THE government last week pur-
chased silver bullion for the Phila-
delphis, New Orleans and San
Francisco mints, about $4,000
ounces.
FOURTEEN men were arrested at
Cork on the oath for participating in
a Fenian procession from which
shots were fired, directed toward
the police.
A FEARFUL storm prevailed on
the 26th ult., on the Scottish coast.
Vessels in the Glide were dragging
their anchors. A terrible loss of
life is feared.
Carter Widgi, living near Platte
Center, this county, lost last week a
large, sorrel horse, with white above !
the hoofs, on all his legs, and blind |
Of one eye.
THERE seems now to be no fur
her question concerning the dis
of a vein of coal Az feet |
.hick, near Ponca, this State, at a
depth of $50 feet.
AT Minneapolis, Mimi, the mill
ers have discarded the use of the
bid milestone and use instead the
steel rollers, which crush
he grain to powder.
THos. L. KIMBALL was appointed
ast week assistant general manager
IF the U. p. Mr.. Kimball will
become the general man.
yer, as Mr.. Clark expects to be
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