The Columbus journal., 1881-04-27
FORTY women voted ct the school
election at Hastings.

THE colored people Of the South
have commenced again moving TO
Kansas.
Mrs. S. c. LANGwoRTHY has been
elected member of the school board
OF Seward.
The Canadian Government is
about to reduce the canal tolls at
least two-thirds.
The treasury holds 1856, ,S66, 600 of
government bonds, to secure nation
al bank circulation.
A CIRCUS man named Campbell
was recently shot and seriously
wounded in ENNIS, Texas.
SIxTY-FIvE thousand people Wis.,
tied the national exhibition at Toxic
during the first fifteen days.
A SCOTCH miner named Thomas
Forsythe, was murdered by Jonas
Haywood, at Monongshels, Pa.
A YOUNG man by the name Of
Proctor has been arrested at Henry,
ILL.,, for embezzling school funds.
+. S. BURTON, connected with the
Union Telegraph company, in New
Orleans, killed himself last week.
RECEIPTS from internal revenue at
Washington on the 18th were 1885,
972 81 and from customs $40, 1870.
The President has nominated Gen.
James Longstreet, now minister to
Turkey, United States Marshal Of
Georgia.
The citizens of Omaha have con-
tributed nearly $4,000 for the suffer-
ers from the food in Dakota and
Nebraska.
CITIZENS of Chicago are taking
steps to establish an American line
of steamers TO ply between that
city and Montreal.
MALES, Russians, between the
ages of 10 and Is years are not per-
mitted to 60 abroad without permis-
sion of the government.
Four small boys were arrested
the other day in Lawrence, Mass,
while burglarizing the freight Office
of the Eastern Railroad.
MRS. MoBLEY, of the Independent
says: "More ladies voted in Grand
Island at the recent election for
school officers, than in any other
three towns in the State"
Bound Brook, New Jersey, was
burned the other night, destroying
all the business portion of the town.
Forty families are homeless.
The Illinois legislature is reported
IS having passed bill providing for
taxing the railroads of that state 81
per cent. on their gross earnings.
The post of Camp Sheridan, in
this state, is to be discontinued May
1, 81, under the instructions of the
Lieut.-General commanding the di-
vision.
THOSE acquainted with the condi-
ton of affairs in the submerged dis
trict in Dakota say il will take from
$4,000 to 100000 to relieve the
sufferers.
Col. HENRY w. FARRAR, for many
years business manager of the Chi
csgo Journal, died suddenly last
week of spoplexy at his sisters in
Chicago.
IT is stated that Coleman and o.
Donnell, two of the men who tried
TO blow up the Mansion House in
London, are now in Providence
Rhode Island.
THE news from Halifax, n. S.,
gives an account of a terrible storm
on Good Friday night which has
never been equa!led in destructive
ness, since the storm of 1860
The movement begun in San
Francisco to raise money to pay off
the mortgage of John Browns wild
ow lie meeting with decided success.
His soul lie still marching on"
THE Canadian Government has
cent 10 its collectors Of customs q
list containing the name of every
American exporter who has at any
time given invoices under value.
MISS ANNA DICKINSON recently
violated q contract with the mana
ger of q theatre, and be says he can
explain her conduct only on the
theory that she is insane or afraid.
SHERIFF KEARNs of Holt county,
this State, was recently shot and
killed by Billy Reed, a cowboy.
The murderer was captured at Atch-
icon, and is now in the West Point
Jail.
SENATOR VAN WYCK is reported
as saying that the fight that the
correspondents have been heralding
as going on in the senate between
Conkling and the administration, is
all imaginary.
The Southern insane asylum at
Anna, H., burned on the morning
Of the 10th. One inmate was burn
ed to death and three others saved
with difficulty. The loss will sp-
pr0Xlmate xlS0,OUO.
SARAH BERNHARDT was in New
York last week filling her farewell
engagement. She is delighted with
America and its audiences, but says
there is only one France and she is
anxious to be there.
NEws reached San Francisco on
the 10th that the American whaling
barque Janus, which went on the
rocks at Awauni Head, is q total
wreck. She was twelve months out
from New Bedford, with 800 barrels
of oil.
BOILER MAKERS at Pittsburgh,
numbering five hundred, struck the
other day for an agreement for one
wear on the present wages, which
range from $2.25 to $3.50 per day.
The contest is on q fixed rate oi
wages.