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The Columbus journal., 1881-10-05

One good Challenge Feed Mil and
horse power. Inquire at Journal
office. 2ltf
The Columbus journal., 1881-10-05
Pushes at Kramer's.
22-w-tf.

Fifteen new Davis Sewing Ma
chimes to exchange for corn at Mar
shall Smiths. i
"A full line of mems, ladies' and
misses shoes st Galley Bros.
- Half-bleached, all-linen table
cloth, % cents yard, at the Revolu-
ton store.
Blank notes,-bsnk, joint, indi-
vidusl and work-and-labor, neatly
bound in books of 80 and 100, for
sale at the Journal office.
Choice mixed pickles in bulk
70 cents per quart.
% If at Hudson's
You can get a heavy Overcoat
for $3.50 at krsmer's.
Buy your smoked meat at the
Columbus meat market, OF Weber i
knobel.
Come and see that all-wool red
flannel, which |. Gluck is selling at
Is cents yard.
Mems Webster ties $l.60, st
Honahan's.
Forks, nails, hand-rakes, etc, at
Elliott Il Luers'.
If you want to receive the value
for your money, 90 to Morse's.
Boots and shoes cheap for cash
at the Boston Shoe Store opp. P. D.
Dinner plates (Meskin's goods, !
at % cts. per set at Marshall Smiths
Fall styles in 0ilcloths and Car
pets at Krameris.
The Columbus journal., 1881-10-05

Why don't you try Carriers Lit
tie Liver Pills? They are positive
cure for sick headache. and all the
ills produced by disOrdered liver.
Only one pill dose. For sale at A.
HeintZ's drug store.
The Columbus journal., 1881-10-05
For sale.

A Minnesota Chief Threshing Ma
chine for sale cheap for cash or on time,
with good security.
ALBERT ~TENGER-
The Columbus journal., 1881-10-05

Hon. J. T. Clarkson and Rev.
]. q. Gasmann delivered the ad-
dresses ST the memorial services at
Schuyler. The hymns sung were
Il would not live AWAY :" Nearer.
my God, to thee - Asleep in Je-
sus;" God bless our native land. =
The orders taking part in the exer-
cises were Masonic. G.. a. r, and
the Zapadni Jednota.
Every saloon keeper in Platte
county, outside of this city, was in
dIcted at the last term of court. All
but one Jacob Ripp) had obtained
license under the old law, and held
the erroneous idea that it was good
yet. The indictments against :. L..
Barrett were founded upon two doc
umeuts. He was put to trial on one
of them, the jury dissgreeing.
Thursday and Friday are to be
the big days of the Fair. The ad-
dress by DR.. Miller of Omaha, the
exhibition of Company drill by the
Hummer Guards, the music by the
Cornet Band, together with the
races of the regular programme will
make Thursday the grand day of the
fair. There are horses enough. and
of the requisite mettle to assure the
best races in the state. These al
wsys attract s large crowd. With
fair weather everybody expects to
be there.
The Columbus journal., 1881-10-05
SPECIAL NOTICES.

Wines and beer for medicinal, me-
rhanical or chemical purposes AZ =. ID.
~heehIu's.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-08-13
Carries His Own Well with Him.

At meeting Of the California Acade-
my Of Sciences the other evening very
fine specimen Of the desert land tortoise,
from Cajon Pass, San Bernardino Coun-
ty, in that State, was received. The
specimen had been carefully prepared,
and was as large as an ordinary bucket.
The tortoise is native of the arid re-
gions of California and Arizona, and
Prof. Z. T. Cox, who was present, re-
lated curious circumstance connected
with it. He found on dissecting one of
them that it carried on each side o
membrane, attached to the inner portion
of the shell, in which was about pint OF
clear water, the whole amount being
about quart. He was of the opinion
that this water was derived from the
secretions of the giant barrel cactus, OF
which the tortoise feeds. This cactus
contains a great deal Of water. The
tortoise is found in sections of country
where there is no water, and where there
is no vegetation but the cactus. A trav-
eler suffering from thirst could, in an
emergency, supply himself with water
by killing tortoise. They are highly
priced by Mexicans, who make from
them delicious soup. The foxes Of the
desert attack the tortoise, and finally
overcome them by dragging them at
times for miles.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-08-13
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

TUESDAY, August 9, was the hottest
day ever known in St. Louis. The ther-
mometer attained maximum Of 1852 deg.
A TERRIFIC storm cloud burst over
Central City, Colo, on the Sth, and immedi-
ately thereafter volume of water from four
to five feet deep rushed down Nevada and
Eureka reefs, sweeping everything before
| it. Great powders weighing nearly ton
were rolled around like pebble stones. I'm
mense quantities of debris were washed
down the gulch at an incredible speed.
Roadways in the track of the flood were en-
tirely destroyed.
JOHN DILLON has been released from
Jail, and it is said nearly all other persons
arrested and imprisoned under the Coercion
act, save those guilty Of participating in
outrages, will soon be set free.
GEN. ROBERT PATTERSON, q hero of
three wars, and at one time the largest cot
ton manufacturer in the United States, died
recently at his home in Philadelphia.
JUDGE JAMES d. Colt, of the Massa-
chusetts Supreme Court, was found dead in
his Office at Pittsfield on the 9th. Suicide
with revolver.
The dwelling Of DR.. William Bowen,
in Scituate, Mass, burned on the Sth. The
family were aroused in time to save their
lives. After the house burned a fire broke
out in the barn near by, but the flames were
extinguished. The fire was caused by an
internal machine operated by clock work.
DR.. Bowen has been very active in enforcing
the law against liquor selling and has before
suffered in consequence.
NEAR Oxford, Ala, the other day, Otis
Mattison, his father and brother were struck
by lightning. The former was instantly
killed and the others probably fatally in
jured.
Miss LENA HOMAN and Mrs. Farber
were killed by locomotive at Pleasant
Plains, Staten Island, n. Y. Miss Homan
attempted to drive across the track. when
the horse baked and the engine struck the
carriage.
AT Lake Village, N. H., the Coroner's
Jury in the case of the three children OF
Chas. Moody (colored) who were burned on
the evening of July returned a verdict that
the children were murdered and the house
burned to conceal the crime. Moody and his
wife have been arrested.
SIX men were mangled and scalded
to death and several others seriously injured
by the explosion of portable engine near
East Carondelet, ILL.,, on the 9th.
A. G. WHEELoCK, confidential book
keeper Of the firm of J. G. Wolcott & Co., AZ
Broad Street, New York, has absconded
with money and securities to the value OF
over $50, 600. He was known as being fast
young man. 1t is supposed he sailed for
Europe.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-08-13
Cheap Living Abroad.

Before the era Of railroads it was pos
sible to find f-the-way places where
one could live on very small sums Of
money. 1t was the custom in England,
when a family met with pecuniary mis-
fortunes, for them to retire to some OBJ
scure place on the Continent, where they
could live in an economical way until
their means had increased so as to be
enabled to live with their accustomed
comforts and luxuries. But railways
have cqualized values wherever they
have penetrated; and now hotels charge
about the same rates, and living does not
differ much, comparing one locality
with another. But it seems in Italy there
are still places where the cost Of living
is at minimum. A correspondent Of
the New York Tribune, living in Italy,
tells how she and her husband manage
to get along on about 81 40 day. On
this sum they had the attendance Of two
servants, and indulged in q bill of fare
that was really luxurious. The letter i
dated from Viariggio, near Lcghorn.
The house the couple lived in was a nice
one, with seven rooms, and the rent for
hundred days was S20.19. There are
places in this country where rent and
food are cheap but the comforts Of a
nicely furnished house, two intelligent
servants, and course dinner could not
be procured for any such sum as that
asked in Italy.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-08-13
How the Doctors Went to Washington.

The ride of the two consulting phvsi-
clans to Washington must 60 into history
as one of the most remarkable on record.
Dr.. Frank Ii. Hamilton received the dis
patch summoning him to Washington at
his house, No. 43 West Thirty
Street, New York. 1t took him only
ten minutes to prepare for the journey.
He left the house at about two o'clock,
with the remark that he did not know
when the next train would start, but
that he would get a carriage and 60 to
the ferry, so that he would be ready to
take it. The dispatch, which was brief,
he took with him. He hastened in a
carriage to the Desbrosses Street ferry,
where he learned that the first train for
Washington was over the Pennsylvania
Railroad at 3 40 o'clock. 1t would ar
rive in Washington at 1920 p. m. Some
time was spent in inquiries as to the de-
parture of trains on other roads. Their
he crossed the ferry and entered the
Jersey City passenger waitingg-room,
where he was recognized while he was
making inquiries at the palace-car Win
dow. superintendent jackson, who was
in his office in another part of the depot,
was sent for. A very brief time sutliced
to make him aware of the situation. He
hurried away from DIR. Hamilton, and
seven minutes later the latter was rush
ing out of the depot on special train.
1t was $40 p. m. when the depot mas
ter and the train dispatcher received no
tice to be spry. Engine 915, one of the
best of the ordinary engines, with five
foot driving wheel, was hitched to new
Eastlake coach, and at 8 20 it was run
out of the depot.
The freight trains were all got out Of
the way one after another on side tracks
in time to allow the special to roar past
them without Stacking speed, but two
passenger trains delayed the Doctor If
teen minutes. He arrived at Philadel-
phia at 5 clock, distance Of ninety
miles in one hundred minutes. The en-
gineer was A. Vandegrift, and the con-
ductor III. w. Headley. At Philadelphia
a stop Of but few minutes was made,
in which to change engines and allow
DR.. Agnew to get on the cars. From
Philadelphia to Wilmington, with stop
at Chester and other places, the run was
made in twenty seven minutes, the dis
tance being twenty six miles. A dispatch
had been sent to Wilmington for o
brakeman, aud man named Hum
phreys was detailed to "make the train"
At 5:27 the special came dashing
through the city at the rate of, at least,
eighteen miles an hour, and the intrepid
brakeman stood near the track. He made
a desperate grab for the rear platform,
and at the risk Of his life succeeded in
gaining hand and foothold. The car
steps were protected by a wire railing, and
he was carried considerable distance
clinging on to this before the conductor
came back and unlocked the gate. Tie
train arrived at Washington at 80 p.
M, an average run from New York Of
almost fifty miles an hour, and from
Philadelphia of over tifty-iive miles an
hour. This is the fastest railroad time,
for the distance and considering the
stops, on record. -Ballanaore Gazette.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-08-13
PITH AND POINT.

If wit is badinage, what must it be
in youth2-Cdnbridge Tribune.
The crow is the best corn-extractor
When a mans money is gone his
friends drop off like buttons from a pair
Of ready made pants.-B Boston Globe.
The idea that nothing harder than
diamonds could be made has been ex-
ploded, st. Louis bride having baked
batch Of biscuits. Post.
When city man movesinto the su-
burbs and gets a patch Of ground big
enough TO raise turnip on, his first am
bition is to join farmers club.-Phit-
adeIphta Nea0S.
The tramp finds he can buy two
glasses of beer with the money he has
begged for single cup Of coffee, and
that is why he always asks for coffee
money.-NeO Orleans Picayune.
A chicken when stripped of its
plumage is said to be dressed. The
girls Of the ballet resemble the chicken
in this regard, though they are not all
chickens in years. Boston transcript.
-a Tommy, did you hear your mother
call YOU ?r s'Corse L did!" ssThen why
don't you 90 to her at onceP" swell,
yer see she's nervous, and it'd shock
her awful fl should 60 too suddent. -
Yonkers gazette.
A colored couple, elegantly dressed,
and in the bloom Of youth, were passing
up Austin Avenue, when the man was
heard to say: "Miss Matildy Johnsing,
does yer transrire ike I does?'' "Reck-
sol sweats like hog.''-Teras Stft-
ings.
When a Montana gentleman puts
on pair of long boots, a slouch hat, a
pint Of whisky and two long, large-sized
revolvers and knife that can reach
clear through cow, he is said to be
sdressed to KILL" And indeed he Is,
though you can't always be certain
whether he or the other man will be
killed-Burlingto,s HaUkeye.
ODE TO DE wATERMELLYoS.
Oblong and luscious
Black seeds or whlte
Lemme deyour you
Outer my sight.
Mottled or speckled,
Thick rind or thin;
Devoid of all cramps,
Collie an sin.
Georgia or Jarsey,
spcckled or spotted;
Dose who doan' like EN-
Orter be shottcd.
--DetreH Free Press,
Huntsville gazette., 1881-08-13
SCiENCE AND INDUSTRY.

-Henceforth the telegraph Offices of
France are to record in detail all thun-
der-storms which may be observed.
The London Sanitary company is
formed for the purpose Of putting dwell
ing and other houses in perfect sanitary
condition.
The evil effect of the electric light
upon the eyes is due, it is supposed, to
the constant changes in the intensity of
the light, whereby the eyes are greatly
fatigued.
1t has been computed that the power
of the steam engines in England would
suffice to raise from the quarries and
place in position all the Great Pyramid
in eighteen hours.
--Asphalte is considered by M. Leon
Malo as chalk strongly impregnated
gii situmen. 1t was first appli, d to
roa'i making in 1S49 by M. Merriam,
Swiss engineer. In 1851 it was first
tried in Paris, in the Rue Bergere.
Experiments have been made with
compressed gunpowder, made to tit the
drill-holes, and cut into short lengths
1t was found to possess many advan-
tages over loose powder, among which
is saving of forty per cent. in powder
In recent work on the nests and
eggs of birds, DIR. W.. Won Reichenan
states that the ornamental plumage,
crests, etc., of the male bird are due to
an excess OF energy, while the vitality of
the female is exhausted by the produc-
ton OF eggs and the task of incubation.
A quantity of paper pulp made of
sawdust is to be sent from Canada to
England, where the question of its value
will be determined. The pulp will be
made into paper in an English factory,
and experiments will be made as to the
uses to which it may be put. Capital
lists in the lumber region Of the Domin-
ion are awaiting the result with consid-
erable interest.
English wool is subjected to puri-
flying process in heated room during
six months before it is used, whereby
the s'eke,n or grease and dirt, is taken
out of it. American wool just fleeced
from the sleeps back, is worked up,
and, as the exc is still in it, it will not
take the colors. The imperfect dyeing
of American cloths results in rapid fad
ing,-while the English lasts.
DR.. Barely, of Nice, has successfully
employed turpentine vapor in the treat
ment OF whooping-cough. The drug is
allowed to stand in plates in the room
occupied by the patient, resort to
which simple expedient is believed to
greatly lessen the severity and duration
of the malady. DR.. Barely was led to
trial of this remedy by observing
marked improvement in the case Of a
child severely affected who had been
allowed to sleep in newly painted
room, redolent with the turpentine odor.
1t may not, perhaps, be known that
a man wearing dark clothes is more liza
Bile TO infection from contagious disease
than he who wears light-colored gar
ments, because particles which emanate
from diseased or decaying bodies are
much more readily absorbed by dark
than by light fabrics. This is easy Of
proof. Expose light and dark coat to
the fumes of tobacco for five minutes
and it will be found that the dark one
smells stronger than the other of tobacco
smoke, and it will retain the odor longer.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-08-13

attending physicians professed to feel no
anxiety, however, as to the patients condi-
tion.
Two suspicious vessels, the Diogenes
and the Socrates, have been seized by the
German Government at Kiel. They are va
riously reported as being designed for the
American Fenians, the Russian Nihilists, or
for the slave trade.
A SECRET conclave of prominent
Irishmen has recently been in session at
Chicago. There are various and contradic-
tory rumors regarding the object OF the
meeting and the results arrived at.
GEORGE ALGEsCHIEN, of Washing
ton County, Ore, in fit of rage shot his
daughter, infiicting a painful though not
dangerous wound, but thinking he had
killed her he fled to the woods and commit
ted suicide.
A DISPATCH from Pine Ridge Agency,
Neb., says that Grow Dog, Captain OF Police
at Rosebud Agency, shot and instantly killed
Spotted Tail the other day. There had been
an ill feeling between them for some time.
Crow Dog went to Fort Niobrara to remain
until further developments. Trouble is an
ticipated.
A GROUP of twenty men were stand
ing close to the house of ). II. Clyburn,
near Hartsyille, S. c., the other y,when a
stroke Of lightning killed four and wounded
ten of the number, five of whom were not
expected to survive. There was no storm
at the time, though heavy rain fell shortly
after.
AT Oroville, Cal, on the 7th, J. T.
Noakes was taken from jail by body Of
masked and armed men and conveyed
short distance from town and hanged to a
tree. Noalles murdered an old man named
A. j. Crumat at Chico, recently, by kicking
him to DEATH
WILLIAM GALE, the English pedes-
trian, has completed in New York his phe
nomenal feat of covering 5000 quarter miles
in 5000 consecutive ten minutes, and con-
tinued on the track until he had added four
teen additional quarters to his wondefu
record. The fastest quarter was made in two
minutes seven seconds, the slowest in three
minutes twelve seconds.
A TERRIBLE railway accident hap
pened in England ON the Sth. The express
train from Manchester came in collision
near Blackburn with the Liverpool and
York express. Five persons were killed and
twenty mine severely injured, many of whom
were not expected to survive.
AT Austin, Texas, as Mrs. Sneed, an
estimable lady, wife of s. G. Sneed, Chief
Clerk in the Comptroer's office, was stand
ing ON chair filling the reservoir OF gaso-
line cooking stove, the hem of her dress ig-
nited at one of the jets. She fell from the
chair to the floor, spilling the infiammable
oil, which at once ignited and instantly en-
veloped her in a sheet of flames, and she died
soon after.
ROBERT OSBORN and his son were
ridded with buckshot while on. theil
way home a few days ago in Weakly Coun-
ty, Tenn. Both were instantly killed. TheiI
murderers are unknown, but it is a sug-
gestive fact that about month previous the
Osborns shot and seriously wounded Frank
Pate and his son Willis, and were out Oh
bail, their trial being fixed for the 18th inst.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-08-13
On q Western Mountain.

1t is difficult to lay down laws of gen
eral application governing altitude and
atmosphere in this elevated region. To
walk uphill is eXhausting; to sing, ab-
surd and impossible. Yet the "burros,"
or tiny Mexican donkeys, are stimulated
to prolonged vocal exercises unknown
in lower regions, and make night hide
Gus with their late concerts outside the
tents. In the absence of dogs, which
do not thrive at this altitude, they per-
form the part of camp-scavengers, de-
vouring every waste article, from dilap-
idated clothing to greasy newspapers.
Otherwise we should be visited by
pestilence; for, though "every prospect
pleases," the prospector is certainly
''vile." The effect of the altitude is
directly felt upon prices, which are ex-
brilliantly high; while the rarity Of the
atmosphere is shared by purses, which
become singularly light. In this place
of suspension between heaven and earth,
watches, too, seem to vibrate between
time and eternity, and become badly
demoralized in their effort to follow
both. Occasionally we receive the time
from Gunnison City by telegraph. What
remains after loss by the way is then
distributed, to serve till exhausted, when
new supply is obtained in the same
way as before. Eastern etiquette and
formality are of necessity dispensed
with, and to great degree Eastern
costume shares their fate. Flannel
shirts, duck coats, corduroy breeches,
broad d-brimmed hats and the tallest OF
top boots form the prevailing attire.
When gentleman wishes to entertain
his friends in more than usual social
style, he invites them, not to ''dress
coat" but to s'boiled shirt party. -
Gaunison Letter to Springfield (lHGss.)
Republican.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-08-13

4 THE Mississippi Greenback State Con-
.. lin hn called to meet on the oath
and the Republican Convention on the 2oth'
a. I.cksou' 1t is anticipated that the two
hoa;as will agree upon joint ticket.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-08-13

THE Virginia Conservative Democrats
met in convention at Richmond on the 4th.
John w. Daniel was nominated for Govern
or, James Barbour for observation-disclosures,
and Gen. Phil w. Mckinney for Attorney
General. Resolutions declare the mante-
nance Of the public debt to be essential to the
prosperity Of the State and condemn rcpu-
diation in every form; but pledge the party
to use all lawful efforts, consistent with
honor and integrity, to secure the settlement
OF the outstanding debt, with the consent of
her creditors, upon as favorable terms as
possible. A resolution Of sympathy with
President Garfield was adopted.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-08-13

Tur Ohio Pr,hibitionists convened at
Columbus on the 4lh indorsed the state
'.','a. .v'',, roca,tlv nominated at Loyeland.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-08-13

THE Democrats of the Second Maine
District refused TO indorse Gilbert, the
Greenback candidate for Congress, althoush
urged to do so by Governor Garceion. Frank
lin Reed was nominated by acclamatlon.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-08-13

THE President underwent another sur
gical operation on the morning of the Sth,
necessitated by the partial stoppage OF the
flow of pus from the wound, by reason of the
gradual healing OF the original aperture.
DIR. Agnew performed the operation as be-
fore. The patient was put under the inf1u-
ence of ether, beside which the rigor line
was used to deaden the spot where the in
csion was made. The incision extended
downward and forward, and a counter OPEN
ing Was made into the track of the ball be-
low the margin Of the twelfth rib. BY this
means the old wound channel and the re-
gion above the battered rib have {. free
chance to heal up, being now entirely sep
arated from the pus channel. The Presi-
dent bore up well under the operation, and
the physicians expressed themselves well
satisfied with the result.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-08-13

cvxrRA1 CHALMERS has announced
1;u,yo,f a. a Greenback candidate Tor the
T. ( Senate in Mississippi in opposition TO
Huntsville gazette., 1881-08-13

Tar Prohibition amendment has been
,.t.a,ed in North Carolina by a decisive ma
Huntsville gazette., 1881-08-13
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.

GENERAL HANCOCK will command
-, .roons at the Yorktown Centennial.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-08-13

John Morden, Canadian farmers
boy, self-taught in the art of taxidermy,
has a collection of 1890 birds stuffed
and mounted by himself.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-08-13

THE Mississippi Democratic State
Convention, being unable to unite upon
either Stone or Barksdale, the
two prominent candidates for Governor,
finally nominated Hon. Robert Lourey, OF
Rankin County, .Barksdale Withdrawing in
G. D. Stands was nominated for Lieutenant
Governor. Other nominations were: III. G.
Myers, for Secretary of State; w. l.. Hem
ingway, Treasurer; I. G. Catching, Attor-
ney-General; S. Gwin, Auditor; J. A.
Smith, Superintendent Of Education. The
platform of 1879 was substantially reaf-
Huntsville gazette., 1881-08-13

THE Presidents condition was SO
much improved on the 9th that he slept for
the first time since his wound without the
administration OF opiates. His appetite and
digestion were good, little or no fever, and
his progress toward recovery was entirely
satisfactory to his physicians.