The Columbus journal., 1882-08-09

tionsl debt the past year / $ been re-
duced $l57,OOOyOO0.
&. II. REED, attorney az lsw, has
bill of 5000 against the government
for defending Guitesu.
1T is now believed there 10 but little
chance of tho tax bill becoming law
this session Of Congress.
A STEAM washer hiss been invented.
All other patents will have to follow
old styles and pass away.
ExAkcIPATIoN DAY, August lst'
was appropriately observed by the
colored people in many places.
IT is believed in London that Earl
Kimberly will accept the Cabinet
position vacated by John Bright.
The largest disbursement Of pen
sions ever known at the Chicago
Office, took place one day last week.
1T is stated that the widow OF Ex-
President Tyler is about to make her
home permanently In Richmond, va
IT was stated last week that lsrR'
force OF men were at work on the eas'
wing of the State House. at Lincoln.
MRs. EMMA You've, queen Of the
gypsies, died recently at Newark
Ohio, where che was buried with
great ceremony.
VERY heavy rains were reported
last week in Kentucky, greatly dam
| aging the crops, and washing away
many bridges.
IT is stated thst Illinois is about to
supplsnt Ohio in furnishing men to
fill the offices of the government
Produce the facts, and have the ques
ton settled.
THF Interstate Exposition, to be
held at St. Joseph, Mo-. will com
mence September 4th, aud continue
until the 9Th.
Miss MARY Mills, Of Hartford
Conn, while picnicing the other ds.
fel, into the West Hartford reservoir
and Was drowned.
ABILL wss introduced in the house
the other day by Mr.. Mstson, OF lndi'
ana, relating to special examinst'ou'
in pension cases.
The weather in New York and
Brooklyn one day last week was ter
ribly hot. A number Of persons wert
| prostrated by the heat.
The indianapolis and St. Loui'
railroad was sold the other day to th'
Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati 4
indianapolis Co. for 81. $1,000.
J.E. CALDwELL's family, OF Gin
ton, ILL.,, were poisoned the othe'
night by eating canned strawberries
Timely medical aid saved their liV' Q
IT is stated that recently 5O.ON
bushels of wheat we're sent direc'
from Chebourne, Texas, to Florence
Italy, and the same amount to Liver
pool.
Six million feet of lumber, si1
| dwellings, and other buildings were
destroyed by fire the other day a
Grand Rapids, Mich. Loss sbou
100000.
THnEE hundred houses we're de
stroyed by fire at RsdziwilIow, Rue
sis; and boiler explosion sunk th'
steamer Moskow, causing the loss o
200 lives.
A RECENT tornado left hous'
standing right side up and in goot
condition in . corn field near Clay
Iowa. Nobody knows to whom i
belongs.
LAST week . new order went ints
force, by which three fast mail trains
will be put on from Baltimore and
Washington to Chicago, each day
instead of two.
The extensive -four mills of Heckel
4 Co., New York city, burned last
week. Loss will reach 81. 100000. Ths
! report that six persons lost their lives
not confirmed.
THERE was An omission In the orig.
insl call for the State Convention fol-
the election of . regent, to ill the va.
cancy occasioned by the resignation
of Mr.. Carson.
IT is reported that the apple crop in
New York State this year will be
quite failure it will be less in guam
tity than for the past fifteen years.
The outlook is bad.
B. F. BIGELow, former receiving
teller of the National Bank Of the Re-
public, Washington, was arrested the
other mornining at Port Huron. He
is alleged to be short $4,000.
LAST week foreign wheat had de-
clined at London. Corn Was scarce
and higher. Oats were dropping and
wesk. Sales Of English wheat for
The past week, Il, $50 quarters.
THERE Was . report last week from
Matamoras, that there were over 400
cases Of yellow fever in that city. 1t
was also stated that the sanitary con-
iition of the city was frightful.
The London Times of Q recent date
very severely censures public opinion
Of America for not more forcibly con-
demniag the dynamite projects OF
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