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Weather Report.
Review of the weather at Genoa,
for the month of February, 1881:

htFltW Vi tic WedtutT at UtHOd,
for the month of February, 1881:
Mean temperature of mo.,-deg's IL. 80
Mean do of same mo. last year 90 go
Highest do on the 12th,-deg's w AZ
LOwestdO on the l4th--deg's belowo 81
Ordinarily clear days 12
Very cloudy days Observation-Disclosures. I3
High winds-days s.................. q
Calm days Observation-Disclosures. 3
Rain or snow fell portions of-days 8
Inches OF rain or melted snow. 80. 1.15
do of same mo. last year ......... 0.50
Inches of snow during the NO. ..... 13
Prevalent winds during the month
from s to N W by east.
Psrhelia on the 18th ID, l9.
Solar Corona I'd
Lunar Corona II, l3.
Solar Halos Z, 10, 81.
Lunar Halo Sth.
Mirage lst, 2lst, 81, %.
Fogs "a, 25, 26th.
Meteor on the Goth passing to the
south west.
Violent storm of wind on the 10Th
from north to north west and con-
tinuing without intermission until
the 18th, it was impossible TO ascer-
tain with any degree of certainty
whether any snow fell, but the air
was full of drifting snow from pre-
vious falls 80 that it was impossible
to distinguish clearly at 100 yards
distance.
This has been the coolest Februa-
ry for the past 6 years the mean be-
ing IL degrees less than February
1877 and 6 degrees below that of
1879 the highest and lowest means
in that time.
PROBABILITIES FOR MARCH.
Winds blowing from south or east
or from directions between those
points are most likely to be follow
ed by snow or rain while winds
blowing from west or south Or from
directions between those points are
more likely to be followed by fair
weather.
Any attempt to forecaste the
weather when followed by failures
are sure to bring ridicule or censure
upon the head Of the unfortunate
weather prophet, while his success
rarely brings him the credit he de-
serves, this is probably due to his
undertaking to do too much, for in
my judgment to predict the weather
for months ahead and to make one
forecaste apply to the whole coun-
try is liable to too many contingen-
cies to be correct, in all cases, though
it may often hit pretty well, while
on the other hand there is no ques-
ton that with proper instruments
the weather may almost certainly be
determined from "a to 4S hours in
advance; even without these per-
son possessing moderate smount
of observation may succeed very
well.
l am glad to find that my notes in
regard to the winds have met with
so much interest in the community,
and | would add to what | have
heretofore said, that when the
change in the direction of the winds
occurs after the manner of the hands
of watch from left to right or
with the apparent movement of the
sun then settled weather is more
likely to follow than when the
change takes place by q reverse
movement.
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ESfraY Notice.

Come to my place, in Gerrad sd-
dition, during the storm, two sheep.
The owner can have them by prov
ing property and paying charges.
MORGAN WATKINS.
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Will sell for the next 80 days,
Hats, Bonnet's, Feathers, Flowers,
Ribbons and Laces at cost.
Mrs. NJ. 5. DRAKE.
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| have for sale cheap los feet of
shelving and counters suitable for
dry goods store. Call on or address
j. G.. ELLIOTT,
Columbus, Neb.
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M A r r IE D.

Z AN-WENRICK. - February
18th, by &c. HIllhorst, at the residence
of c. A. Newman, Mr.. f. NJ. Newman
to Miss Ella Wenrick, all of Platte
County.
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For Sale.

| have 80 choice calves, and 30
yearlings that must be sold by March
10th, all Illinois stock.
II. HEATING.
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For Sale.

Eighty acres of good farming and hay
land, 9 miles west of Columbus. Price,
so per acre. Call on, or address Luther
b. Chaplin, Lost Greek p. o., Platte Co.,
Nebr.
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Patent Fire kfndIers.

Just the thing for these cold morn
ings; try them, and see your wife
smile. A full supply at Hudson's.
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Notice TO Teachers and school
Officers.

l will be in my office at Columbus,
Neb., Saturday, March IL, 1881, for
the purpose of examining applicants
for teachers certificates, and the
transaction of any other business
pertaining to schools.
j. Z. MoNCRIEF,
County Supt.
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COLUMBUS MARKETS.

Our quotations of the markets are OBJ
tanned Tuesday afternoon, and are correct
and reliable at the time.
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Winter Wheat Flour.
The White Rose, at
OEHLRICH 81 Bros.
For sale.

Two teams of good work horses,
cheap for cash. Call on
JOHN HANEY.
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Notice to Delinquent Taxpayers.

Notice to Delinquent Taxpayers.
Those who are delinquent on city
personal taxes must settle them at
once. The Council holds me res
ponsible for all that is collectible,
and it must come. Prepare for the
collector.
j. w. EARLY, Treasurer.
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Dag VIM. Il. Mexican, Columbus,
Neb, will furnish goods, and make you
good business suit as low as $17. Pri-
ces of fine suits as low in proportion.
Call and see the new style cassimeres.
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Stock Farm 10 Rent.

A No. l Stock Farm with hay and
water facilities, to rent. Apply to
ID. Anderson.
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Sold Timber,

On Section IL. Township Is. Range
l east, must be taken away before the
lst day Of March next.
HENRY LUSCHE.
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Team of Horses

Four pictures for 30 cents, at Lun-
dy's gallery, for the next 80 days.
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BE@I have one hundred calves
and yearlings for sale, all Illinois stock.
Il. HEATING.
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H.undy
Cheap.

Guarantees to make the finest pho
tOgraphs ever in Columbus. Call on him.
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Two teams of work horses, cheap
for cash. HENRY SCHWARZ,
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p%Lundy, the new Artist on
Eleventh St., invites all lovers of art
to call and examine speci mems.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

Advertisements under this head five
cents a line, frat insertion, three cents
a line each subsequent insertion.
The Columbus journal., 1881-03-09

For sale or exchange tor cattle.
NJ. X. TURNER.
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House
For sale.

For rent. Apply to John Virgins.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-01-27
TELEGRAPHIC.
Condensed for Convenient and
Ready Reading.
WASHINGTON.

THERE IS a general feeling in congress
that some protection is needed by the peo-
pie against the gigantic railroad and tele-
graphic monopolies. This necessity has
been made more apparent by the recent
consolidation of the great telegraph lines.
Mr.. Springer, in a conversation to-day,
spoke with much spirit of his intention in
presenting his resolution to the house and
said thas one Of his chief objects was to as
certain the actual value of the property of
the Western Union Telegraph company,
and the cost of operating its lines.
THE senate has confirmed J. NJ. Marion,
surveyor of customs at San Francisco, Ed
gar Stanton. of Illinois, now consul at
Bremen to be consul general at St. Peters
burg. Indian agent Melroy isqually agent
of Washington territory; John D. Miles,
Cheyenne and Arrapahoe, Indian territory;
John Young. Blackfoot agency, Montana;
James +. Wilbur, agency of Washington
territory Postmasters-B. Craig, Yer
sailles, Ky. NJ. b. keyes, Colneaut, O.. !;
f. NJ. Thayer, Evansville, Ind; w. S
Eels. Goshen, Ind; Thos b. Brown,
Marlborough, H.; r. I. Lizier, kirwin
kas. and VIM. 5. Hodge, Abiline, Kan
sas.
Or ali the cabinet positions the treasury
is now the most absorbing topic of specu-
lation. The western men, Allison and
Wilson, of Iowa. Morton, of New York !;
ard Senator Window, of Minnesota, are
the most frequently mentioned. The visit
Of Allison TO Mentor was announced yes
terday by Mr.. Wilson's friends to be in
his behalf, but it is quite as confidently
stated in other quarters to-day that
General Garfield sent for him to confer
with him personally as to his wishes in re-
gard to the matters of his own appoint
ment. Mr., Allison has, however, said to
his intimate friends that he would like to
have Wilson appointed. As to Window
it is known that this name has been very
favorabiy considered by the president-elect,
and urged by mutual friends who would
like to see him in the cabinet.
The committee on post offices and post
roads, by nearly an unanimous vote, have
authorized the chairman to report the
resolution, relative to adopting a COVER
mental system of postal telegraphy, 10 the
house for adoption. If it should be adopt
ed by the house the committee will be au-
thorized to institute inquiry at once and
to send for persons and papers. 1t is I'M
derstoOd that a subcommittee will be APP
pointed. of which the chairman, Mr..
Money, and Gen. Singleton, of Illinois,
will be members. The third member has
not vet been selected The committee ia
vor a thorough and prompt investigation
of the cost of reproducing the telegraph
lines new owned by the Western Union
company and the expense OF operating
them This will also bring out the profits
which the company has derived from its
investment, and demonstrate whether the
government can safely enter upon the
business of telegraphy.
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Chicago Warl&et.

CHICAGO, Jan. Flour--Steady and I'M
changed Wheat-Quiet but firm; No. ., red
winter, 97a98; No. 2 Chicago Spring, 9s24 for
seller cash; 9s for seller February; 99}l for
seller March; .O37 @l.04 for seller May; No
Chicago spring, S2QSj; rejected, 6SQ7O.
Corn--Steady and in fair demand; &c q a 3076 for
seller cash; 81 for seller February; 4l7s for
seller May; rejected, 339a. Oats arly active
and Il shade higher; 31t4 for seller cash. 81 Is
for seller February; 3l34 for seller March,
3516@35l4 for seller May; rejected, 30, Rye
Steady and unchanged. Barley-Steady and
unchanged, Flax Seed-l.lSt&4L2l Pork
Active firm and higher; 1850 l3.40 for seller
cash; 1895 a 1910 for seller February; l3.5S3s
a 1885 for seller March. Lard-Strong and
higher; S.9jQS.97}s for seller cash. 9.O7ls a
9.lO for seller February; ssh $3.50 for sell
Ter March. Bulk Meats Fairly active, and
shade higher; shoulders. 400 short ribs, 1909
$50; do clear, 7.3j. Whsky--Active, brisk
and lower Mt Ito Call heat Firmer adj
vanced &c; corn, advanced sc; oats advanced
ne; pork. advanced 2}&c; lard, &c higher. Re-
eeipts-Flour. II 900 wheat II 900; corn, 81 :
00O oats, 81 OO0 rye, $500; barley, 10000. Ship
ments-Flour, 80 900; wheat 1900; corn, 10000;
oats, $4,000; rye 23OO; barley, 22,OOO. The
"Drover's Journal" reports: IIogs-Receipts,
$4,000 shipments, $500 active; good business,
Sc higher; closed weaker; mixed packing, 1859
5.O5; light, 1909 $50; choice heavy, j.2OG
$50; Cattle-Receipts, 900; shipments, 1900;
good shipping, brisk in January, j.5Oa 5.S7 =
common to medium. steady, 4.20G 400; butchers
Zoe lower, 2,OO0 $50; chiefly 2.4O stockers and
feeders, slow; 2.75G3.7o; chiefly 2.9O9 $50;
common to light, dull and weak; calves wanted
at 1OQl2 Sheep-Receipts, 1000; shipments,
1900; slow; common to choice, AZ 30 good,
I'm
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SedentarY Habits.

The alarming increase of late years
III the proportion of sudden deaths is
beginning to attract the attention of
statisticians. 1t is largely due, no
doubt, to more general mental activity
without Il propOrtionate increase in
bodily exercise. The busy life of tho
age demands constant hurry and eX-
element, and taxes the physical pow
ers to the utmost to keep up in the
race for money-getting. One of the
disadvantages of introducing facilities
of transportation IS the temptation to
cut short time and distance by the
habitual use of steam cars and horse
cars even in the daily transit from the
dwelling to the office. A Sedentary Oc-
cupation begets an almost unconquer-
able aversion to regular exercise, and
the result of yielding to the indisposi-
ton is that the mental powers, kept
at a steady tension for years, viii some
day suddenly relax and leave their
abuser either lifeless or a helpless par
alytic To literary and profess ional
men is vigorous and regular exercise
especially needful, and the example of
its effects in hale old age will suggest
themselves 10 every one Inc exercise
needed to keep the mind in tone and
the physical force undated up to four
score years and ten, is not daily spin
behind fast-stepping horse, but the
long swinging gait which puts the
walker over a country road at the rate
of four or five miles an hour, and sends
the blood pulsing with invigorating life
to every portion of the system. Two
hours exercise day, so far from be.
ing waste of time, is a positive econ
omy, supplying the nervous force for
more and better work in ten hours
than the man of street cars and car
riages can get out of twelve.-Ne,r Lon
don Telegraph.
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FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

WRIGHT x MOODY, merchants of Bart
lett, Tenn, have made an assignment, to
secure 2ll 600 due to creditors in Louis
Vile and Memphis.
THE charred remains of George w.
Wood have at last been taken from the ru-
ins of the Beckwith house, at Oshkosh,
Wis.
ALLEY BROTHERS, merchants of Olive
Branch. Miss, have failed, the sum of
81, 600 being due to Louisville and Mem
phis creditors
THE finishing shop of the Massachusetts
state prison at Concord, was burned on the
10Th inst. The loss to the state was LOCO
and to Warning K Co., hat manufacturers,
5000
Ff4E in Walker street, New York on
the 10Th inst, caused loss of S45, 900 TO
Obsteller Il Co., silk importers, besides
damaging the stocks of other dealers TO the
amount ofS3,OOO.
TIE explosion of boiler in Watson's
bleachery, at Paterson, \. j., on the 18th
inst, killed one operative and seriously
wounded another.
OVER fifty head of jersey cattle, among
which was a bull valued ut $500, were
burned to death by the destruction of the
Coleman barns, in Lancaster county,
PENNSYLVANIA, on the 18th inst. The loss
is $4,000.
DPHTHERIA is raging in the vicinity of
Valparaiso, Ind, with a virulence that
almost equals that of the yellow fever
Chauncy GAYLORD, residing near Chris
man Station, buried five children in one
grave, and two more were not expected
to survive the day. One of the latter
begged most piteously not to be put in
coffin.
4 stX-sTORY tenement house in Mott
street, New York, caught fire on the 22d
inst. No less than 800 persons resided
in the building, and the police were forced
to use their clubs to hurry the screaming
women and children into the street,
which enterprise was successfully accom-
plished and the flames speedily subdued.
THE great stock stable on the Elizabeth
farms, belonging to q. Dawson Coleman,
of Lebanon, and situated in the northeast
ern section of Lancaster county, was de
stroved bv incendiary fire on the 18th inst
The fPmous registered herd of Jersey cat
tie, many of them imported, and hfty-two
in number, were chained TO their stalls.
and when the fire was first seen 1t had OBJ
tanned such headway that not one of them
could be saved. Thoroughbred dogs, goats
ana game CHlckens were dISO puEitu.
Many Of the cattle were highly valued,
some of the bulls costing 5000. Loss,
$4,000.
CHRISTIAN kJAR. employed in a mill
near Fond du Lac, Wis, met with a terri
BILE accident on the 2lst inst. He was
standing in front of the saw, giving some
instructions to another man about setting
it, when the carriage started up and com
ing up0n X lar before he was aware of Its
approach, struck him and carried him
against the saw, the latter severing one leg
Just below the body The carriage CON
tinued moving forward showing the unfor-
tunate man before it the whole length of
the log. He was carried to his boarding
house and surgical aid was summoned
from Green Bay, but death ensued from
excessive loss of blood about twenty min
utes after the accident. The unfortunate
man leaves n wife and children living at
Fort Howard.
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GENERAL NOTES.

THE original papers bequeathed by Ben
jamin Franklin TO his grandson, have
been offered to the state department for
$4,000.
A COMPANY has been formed at London
with a capital of 100000, to facilitate
the importation of beef from America, and
will build four large steamers.
WHEN asked if his answer to his wife's
charges would develop anything new,
Governor Sprague replied that it ought to
effect a vacancy in the United States SEN
ate.
DEER searching for food have been east
lv caught near dwellings in the rural re-
gion of Virginia, and birds are found fro
zen in the fields.
THE Michigan supreme court, in the
scandal originating at the state university,
has exonerated Douglas on all points,
placed Rose in the attitude of a defaulter,
and saddled the costs on the university.
Mrs. VALERA f. STONE, of Maiden,
Mass, wound up her princely oh arities for
the week, by sending s., 600 to the Massa
chusetts homeopathic hospital, for free
bed.
A WOMAN who sought refuge at a He
brew charity in New York. and who
burned herself to DEATH has been identi-
fed as the wife of Morris kerstine, mer-
chant of Ashley, Ill. She was undOubt-
eddy insane.
As the Maine legislature must adjourn
by Feb. ii, after which date a greenback-
er might be appointed senator by Govern
or Plaisted, Mr.. Blaine intends 70 send
in his resignation some time this month
and make room for Frye.
Mr.. PRESCOTT, one of the commission
ers who negotiated the treaty with China,
says the only change produced by 1t in the
status of Cinnamon in this country is that
the United States government now stands
pledged to protect them from prosecu-
ton.
THE Illinois senate adopted a resolution
that the railroad and warehouse commits
sioners furnish the committee on railroads
with full details of all complaints of ex
tortion or discrimination by the roads and
authorizing the committee to investigate
such complaints with power to send for
persons or papers.
THREE differen: reports have been sub
mitted by the congressional memembers
of the board of visitors to West Point.
Senator Garland and Representative Phil
lips declare that the mingling of the races
is subject to drawbacks which no legisla
ton can control. Senator Edmunds is of
opinion that the standard of admission
Dug Int to he raised, and Representatives
Mckinley and FELTON, hold views directly
to the contrary. Senator Garland presents
a bill providing that hereafter no officer
above the rank of colonel shall be assign
ed TO duty at the academy.
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claiming any deduction for such incumbranee
shall state to the assessor under oath, the nature
and amount of the incumbrance, and TO whom
due and the assessor shall assess the owner OF the
fee and the owner or owners of the mortgage or
other lea separately, and in ratable proportion
near az may be, to the value of the interest OF
each by deducting from the real and full cash
value OF the properly the value Of the lien or
liens assessing the owner of the fee the excess,
and the owner or owners of the lien upon the
value OF such lien; but in assessing these amounts
the same scale of assessment or rate per cent. of
the value shall be observed rs may be applied in
assessing other property, so that each shall pay
his pro rata share, and the aggregate be the
same as Il the property had been assessed to the
ewTer.
scetioa 3. The tax arising from the assess
nevis Of these several interests shall be a lien
upon the property, and also valid debt against
either and all the parties in interest and may be
paid by either. If that part due on the lien or
mcumborancc shall be paid by the Sner of the
fee then 1t shall constitute n payment thereon,
and to that extent Ne an offset; and if the holder
OF the lieu shall pay the tax of the owner of the
lee. then the amount so paid shall become to that
eNtsslt an addition to the debt due him. provided
that If any such lien shall be paid by the debtor
after assessment and before the tax levy for that
year. The amount of such levy may likewise be
retained by such debtor and this shall be com
puted according to the taxes on the same for the
preceding year; aud, provided further that taxes
other local improvements shall be addressed Who'll
~ against the owner of the fee.
Section l. Every contract hereafter made by
which debtor is obliged to pay any tax or assess
ment on money loaned. or any mortgage deed or
trust or other lien shall as to any interest speci-
fed therein, and as to such tax or assessment he
null and void.
Section ). All acts or parts OF acts conflicting
with this act are hereby repealed.
1RIpAy Jan. 2I-AssenNy Several petitions
for the prohibition of manufacture and sale Of
Gtiuor "ere presented.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
MIR. Aenzies amending section 1898 chapter 80
Il. y, rslatiye 10 town insurance companies
Mr.. buse, to repeal the laws of 1850 relating 10
fences This does away with the necessity Of hay
in2 partition fences, before damages can be re-
covered.
Nr Kingston, providing for the payment Of a
bounty on wild aniinals-S6 on wolves So on wild
eats ali lynXeS, and - on foxes. 1t permits
poisoning in certain seasons,
tfr. Taylor, authorizing the town Of Eiambeaa
to issue bonds to settle its indebtedness
Mr.. A. Peterson, amending revised statutes in
tie mRtter Of insurance corporations.
Mr. Kidd to repeal chap. 200, general laws of
1850, regulating the sale and inspection of illum
mating oils
Mr. !1.ye, amending sees. l6S9-92 of the r. 5.
IN he NATTER Of the rate Of interest.
Mr. Rlakesee, to encourage the raising Of i'm
proved stock.
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the powers are bound 10 abide by the de-
cisions of the Berlin conference on the
Greek frontier question.
A GALE and snow-Storm, the severest in
the memory of living persons, ragged over
nearly the whole OF the United Kingdom,
the 2lst inst. TIE damages amount to
many millions.
THE house of commons had a taste of
obstruction tactics, on the 2lst inst, when
Charles Dawson, an Irish member, spoke
for nearly two hours on the assimilation
of borough franchises. Cries of shut
upw were raised while a home rule mem
Der was speaking.
THE British ministry now regard war
between Greece and Turkey as inevitable,
and fear that it will, sooner or later, in
volve all Europe. The porte, it is an
nounced, has communicated to the am
bassadors fresh note regretting the war
like preparations of Greece, which are
bringing trouble and uncertainty upon the
peace of Europe. In order to terminate
such state of affairs, which the porte
says is disastrous To both Turkey and
Greece, the powers are invited TO send in
structions to their ambassadors at Con-
stantinople for European conference.
The porte hopes pacific solution will
thus be obtained. The Greek government
meanwhile is negotiating for the pur
chase Of sw lift unarmed cruisers.