The Columbus journal., 1881-06-22

ioNA auu cuus9 9ifeuia SIccu-
hackers have nominated state tick
cts.
GEN. ,LoNGsTREET will soon be
qualified TO set as L. s. marshal for
Georgia.
HARVESTING is going forward in
California. The season is late and
the crops fair.
Ok the 10th the vote for senator
showed the following result-Conk-
ling 32. Plat q.
SEVEN ocean steamers left New
York City the other day with $50
passengers TO Europe.
MISS Nj. NJ. GILLETTE of the Dis
trict Of Columbia has been appointed
Notary Public by the President.
TIE President has appointed
Judge N. c. Mcfarland, of Kansas,
commissioner of the general land
Office.
The grand prize of Paris was lOO,-
600 francs in specie and the betting
at the start was two to one against
FOxhall.
IT was reported at st. Louis on
the 10th that rates we're being cut on
grain to cents to New York and 8
TO Boston.
1T is stated that the demand for
dry goods and clothing in eastern
wholesale markets is very good for
the season.
BosToN wool sales for last week
were the largest so far this year. or
domestic grades 2.S04, ,766 lbs. were
sold, and $4,000 lbs. of foreign.
THE vote for U. S. senator in n.
Y, on the 18th inst, shows no ma
terisl chsnge,--Conkling 81, Platt
81.
1T is stated that the men who tried
to blow up the Liverpool Town Hall
are ignorant dock hands, misguided
by the counsels of more knowing
citizens.
A MAN who lived in extreme pow
erty in Buffalo, n. Y, and who was
q rsg-picker, was found to have in
his possession the other day the sum
of $4,000.
IN many localities in the United
States for several days of last week
fearfully hot weather prevsiled--the
thermometer ranging from 80 to 100
in the shade.
RoBT. MARTIN, of Newark, New
Jersey, the other day shot his wife
and child, a girl three years old.
The woman was instantly killed and
the child mortslly wounded.
The U. S. steamship Alliance sail
ed the other day from Norfolk for
four months cruise between Nor
way and Spitzbergen, in search OF
the missing steamer Jeanette.
WEsTEGREN, q Swedish immigrant
was murdered i'm the n. Y. city hall
park on the llth for his money. The
three men who went with him to
get q draft csshed are suspected.
Our of the forty-three rioters in
the recent Cork riot, twenty-three
have been sentenced to four months
Imprisonment, the others were lib
Grated. The city was quiet on the
llth inst.
The British authorities claim to
have information that the Fenisns
propose to set fire to various public
edifices in English cities, and it is
claimed that Chester in particular is
threatened.
KENTUCKY recently shipped six
thoroughbred horses to Japan, this
being the second installment of
blooded stock purchased in thi.
country by agents OF the japanese
government.
JUDGE J. F. KINNEY, OF this state,
has been appointed by ex-President
Grant on the committee to revise
and report TO the next congress the
bylaws and rules of the National
Trotting Association.
The bslloting for Senators in the
n. Y, legislature resulted in no
choice aud stood as follows: Conk-
ling 30, Jacobs %, Plat %, Kesrnsn,
% and Depew IS. The prospect
for the old senator's success looks
gloomy indeed.
LATER news from st. Paul, Neb.,
announced the arrest of Henry Ted
rspu by Sheriff F. w. Crew, for the
murder of Lou Paxton, an account
OF which was given in last weeks
JOURNAL. He confesses the crime
but gives contradictory reasons for
its perpetrstion.
PROFESSOR RILEY, of Washington
City, says locusts are now appearing
in the west and south. The Prof.
claims that there are two distinct
breeds. One is the thirteen-yesr
and the other seventeen year locust,
and this lie the first time they have
appeared in the same year since 1860
GIN. WEAVER, the greenbsck ora
tor. with his numerous sppojntments