The Columbus journal., 1880-12-01

states that merchants and other citi-
zens refuse to serve on juries in the
state trials for fear of injury to their
business. and of murder.
Mrs. EsTELLA ANNA LEWIS, the
authoress of "Sappo" and other
poems under the non de plume of
"Stella," died at London on the 23d
very suddenly of heart disease.
The bodies of the two ladies
drowned at Dubuque in the Missis-
sippi river the other day, Mrs.
Choteau and Miss Gregoire were
both recovered on the 26th ult.
The estimate of the amount of
appropriations required for the pub
lie services of the government dur
ing the fiscal year ending the 30th of
June, 1882, will reach S29S, ,202, 722.
THIRTY FIVE buildings were burn
ed at Coleville, Pa, an oil town ten
miles southeast of Bradford, on the
oath. The buildings burned en-
brace the principal hotels and stores.
THE Passion play" will not be
produced in New York. Public
opinion is against the play, and
manager Abbey of Booths theatre
acuuiesces in that opinion and will
not produce it.
An unknown woman was found
in the back yard of house in Chi
cago on the 26th, frozen stiff. She
was unknown to the police, but it
was evident that she was dissipat-
ed charac ter.
PRESIDENT HAYES, it is under
stood, will not allow the use of his
name as a candidate for the Ohio
senatorship. He is much annoyed
by the proposal to connect bis name
with the Office.
OK the oath ult. among a batch of
indictments returned by the grand
jury, sitsing in New York was one
against James O'Brien, alias Lind
sey for perjury, for swearing falsely
in the Chinese letter case.
THE colored voters of New York
petition Gen. Garfield for cabinet
position, and say, that had it not
been for the cOlOred vote Of 10000 in
the state of New York. he could not
have been elected president.
THE weather throughout Canada
was unprecedentedly cold last week
for this season of the year. The
sleighing was good in Montreal, and
the thermometer ranged from II TO
Ia degrees below the freezing point.
Cor. M. ID. BRowN, citizen of
Pembroke, Ky, and a member of the
last legislature of Kentucky, was
shot on the 26th, and instantly killed
by Cass wilkins, clerk in livery
stable. The shooting was the result
of quarrel about the keeping of
Browns horses.
1T is stated that there is now about
$S5, 100000 in gold bullion standing
TO the credit of the United States
treasury, out of which ID has been
decided to coin monthly $l0,000,OOO
of denominations of s. and So No
gold coins of a less denomination
than 50 will be coined at present.
Oh the 26th uIt., at Chicago,
trunk belonging to John Morrow,
salesman for Philadelphia jewelry
firm, was stolen by unknown par
ties while awaiting transportation TO
the depot in front of the Clifton
house. II contained six to seven
thousand dollars worth of iewelry.
AN item of news from New York
states that the United States court
has decided that national banks
cannot be taxed by the state, because
the state law authorizing such taxes
is invalid. The city banks will at
once proceed to relieve themselves
of taxation which aggregate ST.
100000.
THE Leadville Chronicle on the |
18th ult. says 60 laborers were bur-
led in snow slide near Chalk creek
on the Kokomo extension of the |
Denver & Rio Grande road. John
Dine was killed, ten others badly
injured and eleven others slightly.
The slide carried the track over the
heads of the men.
Mr.. KING, of East Orange, N. j.,
purchased the other day a box of
grapes, from which two of his chill
dren ate one bunch and were pois-
oned. The physicician pronounced
the. effects that of arsenic, treated
them accordingly, and barely saved
their lives. Ii is thought the poison
got into the box accidentally.
ROBERT SANDERsoN, a young man
who has been employed on the
Pennsylvania railroad as night op-
orator at Schenck's Station, by close
application to business, and in his
attempts to produce a railway dam
ger signal, being the great object of
his labors and studies for many
weeks, day and night was too great
a tax and strain upon his mental
powers and they gave way and are
now total wreck; he believes he
is "is son of Jesus Christ, sent here
to preach" OF his invention a rail.