The Columbus journal., 1881-01-19

ly opened IN Lincoln.
Gov. NANCE has pardOned but one
convict i'm two years.
HELENA, Montana, has recently
been reveiliug in "A inches of snow.
The houses in Omaha are being
numbered after the Philadelphia
plan.
A SIDNEY coach the other day
took out OF Deadwood 100000 in
bullion.
FoRTY-EIGHT degrees below zero
was registered the other day al
Cheyenne.
SCHUYLER has shipped, during the
past year, five hundred and six car
loads of baled hay.
IT is stated that the emperOrs of
Austria, Germany and Russia have
formed an alliance.
THE legislative caucus of Con-
necticut has nominated Gen. Hawley
for United States senator.
PETITIONS praying for prohib-
itory liquor law are said to be going
before the legislature daily.
IT is claimed that the losses by
fire last year in the United States
will annosnt TO S375, ,5l3, 100.
A SHOT tower is being erected in
Omaha. When completed il will
turn out II 800 pounds per day.
SENATOR MCMILLAN, of MINES
ota, was re-nominated the other
night at st. Paul by the republican
caucus.
THz republican caucus on the
night of the 18th at Albany, New
York, nominated Platt for United
States senator.
The caucus of the Ohio legisla-
ture has nominated John Sherman
for United States senator without a
dissenting vote.
GEN. GRANT was rendered the
Office OF president of the worlds
fair last week, and formally accept
ed il on the l4th.
THE steam Touring mill of Rob-
erts x Gregory, at WahoO, was
recently destroyed by fire. The loss
will reach $4,000.
One of the pumps for the water
works in Omaha has arrived. Ii
will pump 100000 gallons of water
in twenty-four hours.
THE atmosphere was so charged
with electricity at Fremont the 9TH
er day that only at intervals could
the telegraph be used.
A man in Bucks county Pennsyl-
vania has just ended a law suit of
forty-two years standing, and re-
covered six cents damages.
II is admitted on all hands that
the recent cold weather exceeds any
cold snap for many years, if not for
all psst time, in this locality.
No less than one hundred and
twenty-six bills were introduced
into the House of representatives at
Washington one day last week.
Mrs. Reed, of Deadwood, is under
arrest for stealing a house. She
hitched six oxen to il while the own
er was absent, aud drew il away.
THE recent fire at Osceola destroy
ed the court house, some of the
court records, county commission
er's proceedings aud warrant books.
THF citizens of Lincoln will pc
tition the legislature at its present
session for another appropriation of
Sl50.0O0 to finish the capitol build
ing.
MRS. GEORGE RICHARDS, of New
Lisbon, Conn, while preparing
breakfast the other morning, fell on
the stove in fit, and was burned to
death.
THE weather has been very severe
In London. Last week the ther-
mometer reached % degrees below
zero. which is an unusual occurrence
In London.
THE government is about to COM
mence the publication Of the "Rec-
ords of the War" work which will
fill nearly seventy-seven thousand
octave pages.
IT is stated that thousands of head
of cattle, drifted 10y the late storm
into the Platte valley, have been
feeding on the stored hay of the
farmers from Cozad to Kearney.
The following vote in the Cal
ifornia legislature shows how that
body stands on the question of the
United States senator: Gen. Miller
Ciep.), ~; Judge Wallace dem }
"a.
By the explosion of Kerosene
lamp the other day at the residence
of W. Mosser, Reading, Pa, the
building was burned and three per-
sous badly burned, two of them fa-
tally.
WM. III. ALBRIGHT, manager of the
L. p. express company at St. Paul,
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