The Columbus journal., 1881-04-13

JOHN p. KNIGHT, the English por-
trait painter, is dead.
Thirty persons are suffering from
smallpox 10 Milford, Ind.
NINE new cases of smallpox have
beer discovered in Chicago.
LAST week a portion of Virginia
was devastated by tornado.
The vsndalis the other day bro't
to New York 100000 in gold.
AN extra session of Congress is
being again talked of in Washing
ton.
ONE of the policemen wounded
in the affrsy st Clagher, ireland, is
dead.
TURKEY. Italy and England have
recognized the kingdom of Rou-
mania.
REINFORCEMENT of troops are
being sent to Algeria by the French
government.
1T is said that il will take 100000
TO repair the damage to the b. & Nj.
In Nebraska.
THE floods in Spain, according TO
recent accounts, are wonderful in
extent and severity.
S. j. PLATT, a student in the Ann
Arbor University, mysteriously y die
appeared the other day.
The gold in the Bank of England
is greater than for many years, and
amounts to Els, 10000.
LOUIS BOYLE shot and killed j. S.
Ballard, his brotber-in-law, the 9TH
er day in Leadville, Col.
THIRTY thousand persons are suff-
ering for want of provisions in the
flooded districts OF Spain.
In is claimed the Irish vote in
Northampton, England, will be
thrown against Chas. Bradlaugh.
FIVE treaties and two hundred and
and sixty five nominations are
awaiting the action of the senate.
CAHILL, who shot DAILY, the victim
of an agrarian outrage in West
Meath, Ireland, has been arrested.
IT is claimed that there is now
about Sl73,OO0000 of gold coin and
bullion in the vaults of the treasury.
The widow of John Brown is liv-
ing on a farm with an unmarried
daughter near San Jose, California.
The Sioux City Journal says:
Fremont has q citizen named A.
Ghost" That's true ghost story.
RANDOLPH Co., ALA, was visited
last week by cyclone which killed
John Embrey, his wife and two
children.
A REPORT comes from Hungary
that the river Thesis has overfiowed
and destroyed thousands of acres
of wheat.
SOME one has the impudence to
express his belief that an Ohio man
will be made Commissioner of
Pensions.
THURMAN, Evarts and Howe sailed
from New York on the 5th to at
tend the international monetary con-
ference at Paris.
The position of Commissioner Of
Indian Affairs has been rendered to
The Hon. Hiram Price, of Iowa, and
by him accepted.
PRINCE CARoLATH has been di-
yOrced from his wife, who will soon
take Bismsrck's hopeful son, Count
Herbert, for her husband.
The house of Edwin Reeves, near
Stanton, Va, burned, and two chill
dren perished in the flames. Reeves
is probably fatally burned.
The North Platte NebraSkan ad-
vocstes the consolidation of the
Fifth Judicial district for purposes
of political power and prestige.
IT is stated Secretary Lincoln is
revising the list of appointments in
his department, equslizing salaries,
and wedding out incompetents.
Forty thousand pounds of gold,
principally from private sources in |
Holland and Russia, was obtained |
the other day for the United States. |
MRS. &. A. EVANS, of Omaha,
gave birth to four children last week. |
The death of all of them was report
ed on Friday, having lived only a
few days.
LAST week serious floods were |
reported throughout Spain. There |
is great distress among the people,
and general destruction to property |
and crops.
As tine reports come from tn
earthquake district the accounts in |
crease in horror. Thirty villages
were destroyed and forty thousand |
people made destitute.
The round house of the Utah |
Northern railroad, at Logan, recent
ly burned TO the ground. Five
engines were badly damaged. The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
CHIo asks for 1000 tents. Only |
fifty houses are standing. On sll |
hands cries of distress are heard
from the ruins, but nobody dsres
to render assistance.
The Irish members of Parliament |
held a meeting after Gladstone's
speech. The general opinion was
that IL the bill passed there would
be little cause left for complaint.
A REPORT from Des Moines, on
the Sth says the heaviest snow storm
Of the season occurred during the
last twenty-four hours. The deposit
is rapidly forming first-class slush.
Gov. JACKSON, of W. Va, issued
the other day an unconditional par
don 10 Elihu Gregg, sentenced to be
banged for burning the court house
It Preston in 1869 he was seventy
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