The Columbus journal., 1880-05-12

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shaw, charged with numbering Fl. G.
Voorhies, in Gage county, in March
1879.
FFTY-FIvE applicants for exsmi.
nation and admission to the bar at
Columbus, O., passed, out of sixty
four. Hon. Geo. W. Williams, the
Cincinnati colored representative,
failed.
LAST week the lsborers at the
Smelling works in Omaha united in
a request for higher wages, and
being refused, quit work, and will
not resume again unless their reques,
is complied with.
THREE thousand immigrants ar.
rived at New York from Europe on
the 9th. The prediction is made al
New York, that during the present
month not less than $4,000 immi.
grants will land in that city.
The house has nearly got to the
bottom of the contingent fund, and
desires the senate to agree to another
appropriation. Mr.. Voorhees, ex.
odus investigation has taken out OF
this fund about $4,000.
INDIAN depredstions are almost OF
daily occurrence in New Mexico.
The killing Of thirteen herders was
reported last week In the Mogulan
mountains, and one hundred thous-
and sheep have been stampeded.
IT is stated that Vice President
Wheeler has left for his home, and
probably will not again return this
session. Senotor Thurman, it is
understood, will preside over the
senate during the remainder Of the
session.
REPORT from Salt Lake says that
six daughters of Brigham Young
have been excommunicated from the
Mormon church for charging their
fathers executors and other saints
with defrauding them of 81 ,0O0, 600,
and causing the imprisonment of
said executors.
TIE North Platte land Office reg.
istered during the month of March,
the present year, 1S,029 acres for
homestead, and l2,495 for timber
culture entries, s,-aggregating about
$4,000. The business of the present
month, it is estimated, will far ex-
ceed that of March.
VAN HoNTEN, q young man at
tempting to pass over the lands Of
Dalzell, on Garret Mountain, N. j.,
to greet the rising Of the sun, as
usual on the first Sunday in May,
was forbidden by Dalzell, and re-
fuslng, was shot dead by Dalzell,
who has since been arrested.
Mrs. GEORGE WOODRUFF, Pesn
Yam, N. Y, one morning last week
took two of her sleeping children
from the bed and jumped into els.
tern with them in her arms. Both
children were drowned. She will
recover. Mrs. Woodruff had become
insane on account of the family
being unable TO pay their debts.
President HAYES has vetoed the
deficiency appropriation bill. His
objection to il is the dangerous
practice of tacking upon appropria-
ton bills general and permanent
legislation, which objectional legis-
lation did not prevail for forty years
after the adoption of the con-
stitution.
The Deadwood Ne,s represents
the recent great snow storm in that
region as q wonderful affair for the
country, producing an abundance of
water for mining and agricultural
purposes, leaving fully thirty inches
of snow on the level, and the drifts
in many places from fifteen to
twenty feet high.
WE learn from the Omaha Bee
that work on the New Chicago, st.
Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha rail.
road is progressing rapidly. Work
will begin this week on the grade of
the Omshs line north Of Oakland,
the present terminus of the track. In
q few days ell the stakes will be set
south of the Columbus Junction and
grading will begin at that point
also.
MISS MARY HousER of Fl. Wayne,
Ind, who eloped last week with q
carpet-layer after a few hours &C.
qusintance; went to st. Louis and
married him, spent a few days of
honeymoon, was robbed of her
money and jewelry oy her husband
and then deserted, has now returned
to her fathers home, having acquir-
ed an experience that will probably
be useful to her the rest Of her life.