The Columbus journal., 1881-05-04


week at Milwaukee. They demand
ed an advance of five cents per
thousand. By the help of girls and
apprentices the papers were got out.
The South side street railway
company in Chicago have decided
to put in the endless chain system
on three of their lines, and will CON-
mence the work sometime in this
month.
LORD BEACoNsFIELD's will leaves
Hughenden manor and all bis other
property to his nephew, Coningsby
Ralph Disraeli. His letters, papers
and manuscripts he leaves to Lord
Rowton.
SOME of the drivers OF the street
cars at Louisville, KY, are on a
strike. They or some incendiary on
the night of the 2Sth ult. set fire to
six different stables, by which
number of horses were burned.
RECENT news from st. Petersburg
announces that for the completely of
Grand Duke Nicholas in plots of the
nihilists having been made clear, he
has been sentenced by a decree of
the emperor to Imprisonment for life.
THE public schools of Cincinnati
celebrated on the 26th ult. the birth
day of Alice Cary. The exercises
were in honor of the Cary sisters,
and were composed of readings,
recitations and singing their poems.
The coroner's jury in the case of
Alice Montgomery, who recently
died in Chicago, returned verdict
reciting the fact that the girls death
resulted from strychnia, taken by
mistake, and exonerating the drug
gist.
CHAs. SToCKLEy last week shot
and killed a farmer named John
Weeker, living near Batavia, N. Y.
Stockley wanted to marry the lat
ter's daughter, but could not obtain
his consent. The murderer was
captured.
THE effects of the flood below and
above Yankton were disastrous and
two thousand people are left with
ont homes, clothing or food. Those
competent to Judge estimate the loss
between Pierre and Sioux City at
$2,OOO,OOO.
A REPORT from Washington shows
an excess of exports over imports of
merchandise for the twelve months
ending March 81, s243,445, ,S99; ex-
cess of imports of gold and silver
coin and bullion, for the same time,
$7S,943,769.
FOREST fires were burning last
week in Woodsocket, Cumberland
and the adjoining towns in Rhode
leland. In Andover, Mass, near
Lawrence, six hundred acres have
been burned over and large amount
of property destroyed.
AN inquest was held on the men
killed in the sffray at Klogher, Ire
land, some days since, resulting in a
verdict of willful murder against
four of the consta bles, and of man
slaughter against a fifth. One of
the constables was killed.
1T is said that the reason Miss
Anna Dickenson so suddenly abon-
doned the stage was because the
announcement of the marriage of
Whitelsw Reid was too suddenly
made to her. 1t seemed, as the old
saying goes, they had notions.
The colored citizens of Omaha in
public meeting pass resolutions en-
dorsing the stand taken by Senator
Malone in the U. S. Senate in favor
of free people and free ballot and
an honest count for colored Ameri-
can citizens in the Southern States.
THE grand jury at St. Louis last
week, found seventeen indictments
against Robert L. Lindsay for con-
nection with the big Missouri land
swindles, and nine against John
Brady, and one against Herman
Schuster, also concerned in the
land frauds.
1T is stated that w. A. M. Grier,
the original Garfield man of Penn.
sylvsnis, has visited Washington,
and become disguised with matters
there, and has returned home, it is
thought with the intention of de-
clining all Office, or at least the Office
of Third Asst. Postmaster General.
THE President has appointed the
following government directors of
the Union Pacific railway company
for the ensuing year: s. L. Ever
EFT, Cleveland, o.; r. H. Baker,
Racine, Wis. Chas. B. Peck, Port
Huron, Mich; George w. Frost
Omaha, Neb., and A. Koutze, New
York.
THERE is no necessity whatever
for the Secretary of the treasury to
force all the small greenbacks and
the national bank notes out of cir