The Columbus journal., 1881-02-03
The Peruvians lost 20 guns at


Whale mine in Idaho.
GLADSTONE, rumor says, is to De
created Earl of Hawarden.
LAST week a terrific storm was
in progress on the Mediterranean.
LINCOLN is talking of establishing
a street railway early in the spring.
The weather last week through
out New England was reported as
intensely cold.
The president has nominated
Stanley Matthews for justice Of the
supreme court.
MRS. GARFIELD says that the Gen
eral is obstinate when anybody un-
dertakes to drive him.
The number of desths which oc-
Cured in Chicago during the year
1880. amount to 10,462.
QUAIL end other wild game are
perishing in some places in Montana
from the extreme cold.
The greater portion of the town of
Bluffton, Ind, was swept away by
fire last Saturday night.
The income of the stock raisers of
Montana for 1880 is placed at be-
tween s4.5O0OOO and s5,OOO,OOO.
The Good Templars recently held
a convention in Lincoln, and every
county in the state was represented.
A SOAP manufacturer of Chicago,
Louis Gramme, committed suicide
by hanging, on the night of the Both.
THE snow storm reported last
week i'm Western Kansas and Ne
brasks was the most severe of the
winter.
The legislature of West Virginia
elected J. n. Campbell, of Parkers-
burg, on the 25th ult., United States
senator.
JUSTICE SwAYNE of the United
States supreme court, on the 25th
ult., handed his resignation to the
President.
IT is reported that the department
headquarters buildings at Prescott
Arizona, was destroyed the other
day by fire.
GEORGE REYNOLDS is back again
20 Salt Lake, having served two
years in the Utah penitentisry for
polygamy.
The treasury department purchas-
ed the other day $4,000 ounces of
fine silver for delivery at the New
Orleans mint.
IT seems to the JOURNAL that an
sbler lawyer than Stanley Matthews
should be appointed to the U. 8.
Supreme Court.
The steamer T. T. Hellman, while
lying at the wharf at Cairo, ILL.,, the
other morning, was struck by q cake
of ice and sunk.
THERE has been q renewal of the
snow storms in portions of England
and Ireland. The weather last week
was intensely cold.
EIGHT Cinnamon were buried
alive by land slide on the Southern
Pacific railroad, near Santa Cruz,
Cal, on the 3lst ult.
The old Union Pacific emigrsnt
house, located about q block east of
Union Pacific depot, at Omaha, was
burned the other night.
THE freight trains collided on the
]. NJ. s. /. road near Jeffersonville,
Ky, destroying the engines and
twenty cars. Loss $4,000.
TIE lower house of the Kansas
legislature by resolution have me-
morialized congress, by vote of y
TO 20, to control railroad freights.
1T was reported last week that
smallpox had broken out in the
Fort Madison Qowa) penitentisry,
creating great excitement and panic.
Two cases of winter cholera oc-
Cured the other day in Chicago
which terminated fatally. The par
ties were Sam1 Stillwell and dsugh-
ter.
BARNHARDT gave last week in st.
Louis the most successful weeks
performance, financially, ever played
in ST. Louis, the receipts footing up
s2l,l6O.
The farmers about Jalaps are
waiting for this cold weather to let
up so that they can gather in their
corn, q great deal of which is still
out in the fields.
ACCIDENTS occur almost daily in
Omaha from coasting. Mayor Chase
one day last week, prohibited it
within the city limits, and thereby
stops the accidents.
The bank at Condersport, Pa, was
robbed last week. The wstchmsn
was tied by two men and $500 taken
by the robbers. The bank was own
ed by w. K. Jones.
Mrs. SHEPPARD of White Vale,
Ontario, the other day killed her
little son with a revolver, and her
habe with butcher knife; she then