The Columbus journal., 1881-03-16

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DURING the month of February q
farmers wife in Stanton county
made and sold 400 pounds of butter
AT the Republican caucus OF
members of the Maine legislature,
VIM. P. Frye was nominated by &C.
clamation for U. s. Senator.
DOUGLAS county commissioners
have distributed to the poor this
winter 290 tons of coal, exclusive OF
such as are in the poor-house.
The Omaha Republican says ii is
now claimed that the cattle in Ne
braska have not suffered one-tenth
as much as has been reported.
AT a recent meeting held in New
York, it was decided to organize
the United States Cremation Com
psny, with capital of $4,000.
THE Irish-American Land and In
dustrisl League had an immense
demonstration at Brooklyn Acade-
my of Music, n. Y, last week,
RECENT reports from the Scottish
coast say that twenty vessels were
lost and two hundred persons
drowned, during the recent storm.
THE secretary of the treasury esti-
mates that he will be able to expend
S20,OO0OO0 in the purchase of bonds
during the balance of the fiscal year.
BY a recent dispatch from Quebec
il is stated that the exodus of French
Canadian operatives from that vi
cinity to the United States still con-
tinues.
GOSSIP gives Custer, in the Black
Bills, ghost. "Fly Specked Billy"
is to be seen walking in the neigh
borhoOd of the place where he was
hanged.
THE new secretary of war, Robert
Lincoln, arrived in Washington on
the 10th, took the oath of Office, aud
entered upon his duties in the
afternoon.
JUDGE J. W. MCDILL, of Union
Iowa, has been appointed by Gov.
Gear to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of L. S. Senator
KirkwoOd.
CAMERoN was on the 9th nominal
ed by the Republican caucus to sue
ceed senator Carpenter of Minnesota.
The nomination was made on the
45th ballot.
THos. NJ. BAKER, for the past
twelve years a clerk in the dead
letter Office in Washington, has been
arrested on the charge of rifling
dead letters.
THE national banks have not yet
obtained a decision in their favor to
withdraw the legal-tenders deposit
ted by them for the retirement of
their circulation.
Two trains on the Chesapeake and
Ohio road collided near Caldwell,
Va, the other day, killing DIR. Cald-
well, of White Sulphur Springs, and
four train hands.
DURING the debate on the same
bill in the House of Commons,
O'Donnell, an Irish Home-ruler,
was suspended for disregarding the
ruling of the Chair.
AN address has been issued by the
Congressional Committee of the
National Greenback party denounc-
ing the national banks, railroad and
telegraph companies.
EIGHTY-Two bills and six memoir
ials and joint resolutions were pass
ed by the legislature during the
session just ended. The entire num-
Der introduced was $50. 4
SAMUEL J. TILDEN, it is stated,
predicts for President Garfield the
stormiest administration on record.
We think that Samuel is somewhat
off his political spins"
MORE than one hundred lives were
lost by the recent earthquake on the
Island of Ischia. La the village of
LsccO thirteen houses were destroy
ed, and five persons killed.
THE number Of names on the pro-
hibition petition to the legislature
were 25,444; those against, Ais.
The latter names were mainly from
Douglas and Dodge counties.
AN attempt was made the other
night 10 burn the Kansas insane
asylum at Leavenworth. The au-
thorities were apprised of the plot,
aud captured two Of the would be
incendaries.
WIN. SHELTON, editor of the Falls
County Inder, published at Marling,
Tex, has been discovered to be un-
der indictment in Mississippi for
murder, and papers have been for
wsrded for his arrest.
AN exchange says there is a scare
ity of good seed corn i'm the state.
We doubt the correctness of the
statement, but we heartily assent to
good effects that follow the frequent