The Columbus journal., 1881-05-11
Editorinl Notes.

The Doran brought half a mill
ion in gold to New York last week.
Another diabolical mine has
been discovered in st. Petersburgh.
The Bothnia brought to New
York on the 10Th ult. $4,000 in
gold.
AT Ft. Worth, Tex, last week
two thousand bales Of cotton were
burned or damaged.
Fifty thousand troops are to be
sent by France to keep the Algerian
Arabs in subjection.
Fred Douglass has been ap-
pointed recorder of deeds for the
District of Columbia.
Sixty thousand emigrsnts from
Norway and Sweden are under con-
tract for passage TO America.
Mrs. Thompson, Of Oxford, KS,
died the other day from the effects
of an overdose of oil of tansy.
Eight thousand Jews reside in
Cincinnati, and their church prop
eriy is valued at half a million.
Three men have been arrested
at Millstreet, in the county of Cork,
ireland, under the coercion act.
Last week a destructive storm
passed over Birds Point, Mo-, kill
ing one man and doing much dam
age.
Over two hundred nominations
are waiting the action of an execu-
tive session of the United States
senate.
England and the other European
powers object to the Russian pro-
posal for conference on the refu-
gee question.
Under date of the 22d ult., a
special from Topeka, Ks, says soak
ing rains have visited all parts of
Kansas the last forty eight hours.
WIN. Stewart, a farmer living
near Dundee, ILL.,, was recently mar
dered and his body thrown into the
Fox river. Robbery was the mo-
tive.
Col. Hay will take the manage
ment of the editorial department of
the n. Y. Tribune during the alb
sence the coming summer of White
law Reid.
The Omaha Republican says
Give hundred men can obtain en-
ployment at Council Bluffs in pump
ing the water out of the new ele-
vator site"
A young German girl named
Brooks was shot through the heart
at East Ruarry, Iowa, by drunken
Bohemian.
The bench show of dogs in New
York managed by the Westminster
Kennel Club, had at its opening
over eleven hundred animals on
exhibition.
"A ferry-boat sent from Nebrss-
ks City during the flood, rescued
nearly four hundred people who had
been surrounded by water for sew
ersl days, nearly drowned out and
almost starved.
While performing artillery prac-
tice on board the training-ship Mars,
At Wilhelmshaven, a German station
on the North Sea, a shell burst while
The gun was being loaded. Eight
men were killed and sixteen wound
ed.
Two hundred and twenty-six
thousand bushels of wheat. aud one
hundred and fifteen thousand BUSH
els of corn for export left St. Louis
on the 18th for New Orleans by the
river route. This grain is intended
for foreign shipment.
John A. Chandler, of San Fran
francisco, shot and killed ThOs. w.
Cunningham last week. The quarrel
originated about Chandler's wife,
whom Cunningham and his wife had
induced to commence proceedings
against Chandler for a divorce.
Applications still continue to
come to Madison, Wis, for the use
of the war eagle Old Abe at festi-
walls and reunions, Notwithstanding
the birds death. One was received
the other day from Bellsire, Ohio,
Soldiers and Sailors Monument
Association.
"A heavy storm of rain, hail and
lightning passed over the city of
Louisville the other day and four
school boys who had been playing
ball, at the tap of bell ran to the
place where they left their clothing,
when together, they were struck by
lightning and all instantly killed.
1T is understood that the busi-
ness of the countryis actually suffer-
ing on account of the conduct of
wise senators. A day of reckoning
will be reached sometime by the
people. True, il is somewhat of a
round about way for the people 10