The Columbus journal., 1881-07-06
YELLOW fever prevails at Vera

Cruz.
A Nuckolls county stock raiser
recently sold $4,000 worth of cattle
to Iowa parties.
IT is reported that Wayne county
has no regular physician since the
new law took effect.
ELEVEN deaths from yellow fever
and twenty from smallpox occurred
ct Havana last week.
THE dead body of q man recently
found in the river at Plsttsmouth
could not be identified.
NORFOLK is making an effort to
secure the location of the Congregs-
tionsl college at that place.
THERE were eleven cases of sun
stroke one day last week at New
Orleans, seven proving fatal.
DR.. W. S. LATTA, of Lincoln, has
been elected president of the Ma
tionsl Eclectic Medical Association.
BISHOPS Simpson and Peck ar
rived last week in England on their
way to the Ecumenical conference.
RUSSIA, Hungary, Austria, Ger
many, France and Great Britain are
reported as having very fair crop
prospects.
1T is rumored at Washington that
important records of the department
relating to refunding, and other bus
iness, are missing.
ARGENT dispatch from st. Peters
burg says that Russia has determin-
ed upon placing two vessels of war
in Chinese waters.
In the house of commons on the
18th ult. Glsdstone's motion was
adopted, giving the land bill prece-
dence after Wednesday.
Two women up in Greeley county
who obtained divorces at the last
term of court, were married again
in two days afterwards.
A FIRE at Tombstone, Arizona,
destroyed l6O buildings, rendering
500 people homeless. The losses
will aggregate about $25O.OOO.
The dog that committed suicide
the other day was raised and lived
and died iu Seward county. He cut
his throat by running sgsint scythe.
FIVE thousand cattle, thirty-one
thousand five hundred hogs, and
one thousand sheep were received
one dsy last week at the Union
stock yards Chicago.
The steamer, Phseton, exploded
her boilers one day last week near
Marysville, KY, killing several per-
sons and injuring others, some fs-
tally and others slightly.
RECENTLY q submarine diver on
the coast off Kitty Hawk, N. C.,
found in the ruins of the wrecked
steamer Huron a small safe, some
valuable coin and jewelry.
RAUM, commissioner, has decided
that the sum of sl65,445.O7 is due
the United States government on
the evssions of tax by the three
Canadian banks doing business in
Chicago.
ANDovER, N. H., was visited the
other day by q terrific hail storm,
destroying fields of fcorn, apple trees,
old buildings, blowing down fences
and seriously injuring the crops
generally.
ALBERT ]. SMITH,of Chicago, who
has been connected for a long time
with the Merchants Loan and Trust
Company Bank, il is claimed, is q
defsulter to large amount, snd has
left the city.
SEVERAL members of the ladies'
land league of Kilmsllock, county
Of Limerick, have been summoned
on the charge of obstructing the
public highway on the occasion of
the visit of Miss Parnell.
Two arrests have been made in
connection with the murder of Gould
in the carriage of the Brighton rail-
way express train. A later dispatch
says LEROY, the supposed murderer
of Gould has not been caught.
THE Smithsonian Institute has
telegrsphic announcement of dis
covery at the Paris observatory June
23d, at 3 q. m, of large comet in
5 hours and 33 minutes right sscen-
sion and Al degrees north declins-
ton.
The sleeping Hungarian, John
Giyium, at Allentown, Pa, spoke
several times the other night after
silence of one hundred and thirty
five days. His mind is wandering
but his condition is slowing i'm
proving.
A SEVERE wind storm visited
Springfield, O., last week. The
plow factory of Foster & Evans was
unroofed and otherwise badly dam
aged. A lady sitting at the window
OF the Gregory house was, struck by
q plank. A good deal of damage