The Columbus journal., 1881-05-11

ARCHBISHOP PURCELL was report.
ed very i'll last week. He is al
present at the Ursuline Convent in
Brown Co., O., and his death will
not be 6. surprise to his friends at
any time.
A DEAD colored babe was found
the other day in Omaha. The Coro-
ner's jury rendered a verdict "that
it came to its death by suffocation,
done by some person unknown to
the jury"
A REPORT has been put into cir
culation in Washington City in ad.
vance of the event that five hundred
employees of the Census Bureau are
to be dismissed before the end OF
the fiscal year.
A RECENT dispatch from st.
Petersburg says that Eve hundred
Jewish families have been msssa-
cred at Elizabethgrod, in southern
Russia, where the Jews are much
disliked by the peasants.
Mrs. PETER KIo was beaten the
other day by Adam Rowe, of Mon
roeville, Ind, with hoop-pole, and
fatally injured. Her offence was
marrying Peter Kio the day after
her first husbands funeral.
Two youths, Farrell and Reilly,
were shot last week in Dublin by a
very gentlemanly looking man, who
ran away after committing the deed,
but was captured. The cause of the
shooting is supposed to be political.
WooDFoRD aud Payne were in
Washington on the 9th, with the in
tention it is believed of separating
themselves from the Robinson fight
if possible, and securing the posi-
tIons for which they were nomin-
ated.
IT is stated in London that the
Irish members of parliament will
oppose the second reading of the
land bill, on the ground that it will
give no adequate protection or ben
efits to the tenants, which it profess
es TO aid.
SENATOR VAN WICK was in
Omaha on the 9th, and attended a
meeting of the board of trade, the
object of which was to consider the
of the river front at
Omaha, which has been greatly
damaged by the recent floods.
THE Grand Duke Nicholas has
been imprisoned in the fortress at
Dundaberg. Quite an affecting
scene occurred when the mother
of the royal criminal took leave of
him forever. It is stated that Mich
olas is great favorite with the mas
ses Of the people.
A FARM near Charleston, S. C..
has been leased by LIE Due, of the
agricultural bureau, for a term of
twenty years, with the view of test
ing tea raising. A large number of
plants will be set ont this spring, and
in three years the Commissioner ex-
poets to realize a fine crop.
THE London Times last week in a
leading article, calls attention to the
condition of Ireland and asserts that
agrarian crime is worse than at any
time before parliament met. The
article condems Dillon severely and
points out that the government can
not pass over his speeches.
THE very latest news from the
war department is to the effect that
all the departments will be merged
into two, the department of the east
and west, to be commanded by Gen.
erals Sheridan and Hancock, with
other generals to be assigned to duty
whenever most convenient.
ABOUT four hundred and fifty
,witchmen in Chicago struck for
higher wages last week. AT the
lime of the strike no provision had
been made for filling their places,
and railroad business was practic-
Ally suspended. The strikers de-
nand three dollars per day.
The citizens of Dublin last week
were thrown into great excitement
by the report that the city will be
placed under the arms act. Under
his act the officers can enter the
dwellings of the citizens at any hour
of the day or night and make search
As they please to, and, if they choose,
arrest and put the occupants in Jail.
MILLIONS upon millions of prop
srty is annually destroyed by fire in
he United States. Last week
of disastrous fires occurred
in different states. Too much care
cannot be taken in guarding against
accidents of this kind. The savings
Of half life time of man are often
in a few minutes by a fire.
The Nihilists at ST. Petersburg
have issued a proclamation declar-
ing that as the Car has appealed to
The hangman to decide the issues
raised between the government and
the people, they will continue their
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