The Columbus journal., 1881-06-08

nOunces the failure of the Hardle
Coach of Philadelphia. Hon. W. ID.
Kelley, the leading spirit in the con-
cern, claims to have sunk $4,000.
A YOUNG loving couple fleeing
from Lincoln to Council Bluffs to
commit matrimony, were caught on
the fly by an officer, at the instance
of the young lady's father at Valley
station.
LAST week an epidemic appeared
among the horses of Mount Gilesd,
Ohio, commencing with symptoms
similar TO distemper, aud finally
going to the brain and causing very
sudden death.
IT is now said that Olive, who
was charged with torturing and
numbering Mitchell and Ketchum,
will not be tried again, and that the
case has been abandoned by the
Attorney-general.
LAST week Prof. Chas. Stickney
shot and instantly killed Nj. L.
Champean and Mrs. II. o. Dever-
aux, at Denver, Col. The shooting
of Mrs. Deveraux was accidental.
Stickney is in Jail.
JOHN ENRICH, of Indianapolis, Ind,
an ex-member of the police, made
the other day a murderous assault
on his wife and father-in-law, after
which he shot himself i'm the head,
dying in a few minutes.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD has an
nounced his intention of attending
the graduating exercises of the Ma
val academy June 10th and the
commencement exercises of William
college, July 4, 5 and 6.
WM. HALL, of Terre Haute, Ind,
a saloon keeper, was murdered last
week by f. Gibbon, eX-policeman.
They fought to settle an old grudge,
and while GibbOn had Hall down
he shot him i'm the mouth.
JOHN w. GARRETT, president of
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, re-
turned from his visit TO Europe last
week, and received hearty welcome
home by the Mayor and prominent
business men of Baltimore.
JOHN p. O'BRIEN, publisher of the
Sunday Times, at Cleveland, Ohio,
was recently convicted Of publishing
obscene literature. The supreme
court will give him no relief, and he
will now have to 60 to Jail.
SIR EDWARD THORNTON the other
day gave Secretary Blaine draft
on London for fl5,0O0 sterling, the
sum agreed upon as compensation
for damages inflicted on American
fishermen in the Fortune Bay affair.
HENRY HoUsLEY, a farmer in
Hamilton county, committed spi-
eide June lst by hanging. He had
formerly been insane, and passed
two years in the asylum at Lincoln.
He leaves a wife and two children.
RECENT reports from Carter coun-
ty, Ky, mention the killing of two
women and man named Mckinney
by the regulators. Other crimes are
reported, and almost reign of ter
ror exists i'm that part of the country.
THE Republican says that in Om-
aha no attention whatever was paid
to the new liquor law. No high
licenses were taken out, no screens
pulled down, and no arrests made.
Business was conducted just as
usual.
GRACE A. MEYER, of Chicago, a
girl addicted to the opium habit,
nearly killed Mrs. Alfred Buck, her
mistress, the other day, by giving
her a dose OF opium out of revenge,
because she had forbidden her the
use of it.
BEECHER holds christianity is not
confined to a book or a sect, but
comprises every influence that
makes for the bettering of man
kind,-in short, christianity is SIM
ply the divine impulse to develop
the human race.
THE most fashionable way of set
Ting disputes in the South, either
of domestic or political nature, is
the favorite appeal to firearms. The
very latest in this line was that of a
daughter firing at her mother, after
a domestic broil.
News from Springfield, ILL.,, an
nounced the fact that all hopes for
the recovery of Mrs. Lincoln, the
widow of Abraham Lincoln, have
been abandoned. Her attending
physicians say she cannot survive
many days longer.
MISS ELLA DEAN, young lady
from Orange, Y. j., visited Eagle
Rock, and while at the high point of
the rock fell over the precipice,
eighty feet. She was badly cut and
bruised, but still living, but suffer-
ing from the shock.