The Columbus journal., 1881-02-03

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maid servant, leaving many mourn
ers behind beside his wife.
"BoB INGERsoLL wants every man,
woman and child to have some Of
the government bonds" Good en-
ough. Robert. Pass them around, if
you have any to spare.
THOSE who classify the Paddock
and anri-Paddock forces in the re-
cent contest as monopoly and anti
monopoly members, respectively,
will be very very much mistaken.
FRANKIE, q small boy of George
Parker, of Omaha, was kicked by his
pony the other day in the forehead,
fracturing his skull, producing an
injury from which he can hardly
recover.
A SIX hundred thousand dollar
fire occurred in New York one
night last week, in a six-story build
ing on Broadway. The origin of it
is unknown. All losses covered by
insurance.
A LIVERY stable was burned the
other night at Avoca, Iowa, belong
ing to John Coat, in which John
Chenneworth, hostler, was roasted
to death, together with fifteen or
more horses.
AMONG the passengers of the
steamer City of Sidney, recently
arrived at San Francisco from Aus
tralia, are King Kslakaua, of Hawaii,
and his suit, en- route for the eastern
states and Europe.
THE steamer Bengal Tiger was
blown up the other morning above
Cincinnati. The wounded are from
Pittsburg, and all their injuries are
from scalding, only one, Milton Nc
Cable, the steward, fatally.
The jury in the case of the Talbot
brothers, who have been on trial for
a week at Msrysville, Mo-, for the
murder of their father last spring,
returned q verdict on the Goth ult.,
of murder in the first degree.
A RECENT reliable statement was
made at Dublin that elaborate pre-
psrstions are making at Mount Joy
prison, where former habeas corpus
prisoners were confined, for the re-
ception of a large number of fresh
inmates.
JOHN BRIGHT last week made q
powerful speech in the house of
commons, in which he denounced
the land league, which, he claimed
degraded the Irish people. He said
that the land bill was q splendid
monument of freedom.
THE engine attached to the train
that conveyed the senator-elect Van
Wyck from Lincoln to his home was
decorated with bunting and bearing
streamers labeled Van Wyck. The
enthusiasm Of the people was i'm
mense along the entire route.
ONE of the burglars who blew
open the safe of the South Chicago
Iron and Steel works, last week was
the other day with $4,000
In his possession. The amount taken
was over $4,000. The name of the
man lie withheld by the police.
A LARGE number of farmers of
Nebraska recently met in State con-
vention at Lincoln, and after look
ing the ground over formed q State
Farmers Alliance and adopted a
very appropriate constitution for the
future government of its members.
The depot of the B. & NJ. railroad
at Bloomington, Neb., was entered
the other night by burglars, the safe
blown open, and $500, taken. No
clue has yet been obtained of the
burglars. 1t is believed that they
are the same who committed the
robbery at Wauhoo.
The books of the county collec-
tors Office at Chicago, reveal the
fact that the county has been de-
frauded of about $4,000 in ten
years. These frauds have been car
ried on in q quiet way, and it is
probable that all the guilty parties
will never be brought to justice.
CHAs. BRENNER, an aged German,
purchased the other day in Phils-
delphis at a banking house two
hundred one thousand dollar and
nine one hundred dollar bonds of
the Pittsburg, Titusville & Buffalo
railroad. Shortly after leaving the
bank three men crowded him and
stole the bonds.
DECATUR people do very little
bossting, but when it comes to active
enterprise ana hard work they are
not outdone by any town in Nebras-
ks. One of their latest undertakings
is the determination to find coal if
any exists in that locality, and
5000 has been subscribed to be
used in prospecting for it.--Lincoln
Globe.
The Knights of Honor have been
instrumental in drafting q bill for
passage in the legislature that will