The Columbus journal., 1883-10-17

A WESTERN lawyer included in biz
bill against his client, ITO waking up
in the night and thinking about your
case. S."
The machinery in Q paper mill al
Manchester, Conn, was stopped thu
other day by four large eels blocking
the wheel.
PHILADELPHIA has Q preacher wht
believes in popular texts. His lstes
was chase bail from . theologica
standpoint"
TERRITORIAL TREASURER McVAY
has written Q letter to Gov. Ordwsy
refusing to remove the territorial
treasury to Bismarck.
JACK STANFORD, stage driver, at
Los Vegas, N. NJ, cut bis wife's and
his own throat the other day with
razor. Both are dead.
MRS. ADELINE NJ. SMITH. Of Oah
Park, ILL.,, offers to give ten thousand
dollars to found Q Methodist medical
mission at Nankin, China.
INFORMATION has been received al
Montreal that C. j. Dewey. the forger
who absconded with 100000, hal
been arrested at San Antonio, Texss
AUGUST BUrz, at Cleveland, Ohio
the other day finished drunken spree
by swallowing three ounces Of sui
phuric acid, and died horrible death
A WOMAN 1t Frenchtown, N. j.,
aged eighty -four. committed suicide
recently, and seventy-three year old
Atlantic county man has run away
from home.
A MICHIGAN debating society re-
Gently decided that man who smokes
around q hay stack is q bigger fool
than the man who blows into an un-
loaded gun.
AT the annual meeting Of the board
of directors of the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad on the 10th, q dividend was
declared of 5 per cent. payable No.
vember 18th.
BULLDOG races are the latest nov
city in the sporting circles of Pen
nsylvania. Five pounds of raw beef
is placed on q post . mile away as an
inducement.
BIC. WILLIAMS, q coal miner, was
killed, and another, VIM. Csrtright,
seriously injured the other day. At
Springfield, ILL.,, by premature dis
charge Of . blast.
ELEVEN thousand dollars was sto-
len from the psymaster Of the Mex
ican National railway In the station
in the city of Mexico, the other night
by his own servant.
A CYCLONE the other night struck
Arcadia, Tremplean county, Wis.,,
causing the destruction Of q number
of barns and out buildings, and the
loss of considerable live stock.
THERE is Q rumor that the govern
ment has q private dispatch stating
that Sir Stafford Northcote was shot
and dangerously wounded at q small
town in Ireland on the 10th inst.
The National bank of New Orleans
has brought suit against the postmss-
ter general to recover 100000 dam
ages for ordering the stoppage OF
lottery mail matter for that bank.
A COLD wave struck Port Jarvis,
N. Y, on the 5th. The thermometer
stood at 26o on the morning of the
5th. Ice half an inch thick formed,
and white frost covered everything.
AN anti -Prussian journal was seized
at Paris last week, presumably by the
influence Of Gen. Campenon, the new
war minister, whose successor to that
Office greatly pleases the opportunist
party.
IT leaked out the other day at Mon.
treal that President Craig, of the sus-
pended Exchange Bank, had advanced
himself about 100000 Of the bank
funds without knowledge Of the
directors.
GEORGE WARDEN, the absconding
manager and secretary Of the London
and River Plata Bank, is alleged to
have purloined between $250,000 and
$500, 900. The bank has sufficient sur.
plus to cover its losses.
The Governors council of Mssss.
chusetts the other day rejected the
nomination of E. j. Walker (colored)
to be judge of the Charleston Munici.
pal Court. Governor Butler imme.
diately re-noninated Walker.
TELEGRAMs report the appearance
at many interior points of what is
judged to be counterfeit postal notes.
The postmaster of Chicago says none
have made their appearance in that
city, and he was inclined to discredit
the story.
SIX immense rivers formed from
tho bursting Of clouds in Arizona,
near Tuscon, one day last week, the
waters of which were witnessed BY
several persons, who describe 1t as
the largest cloud burst ever known in
this country.
An old resident of Marion County,
Iowa, by the name of William Hart
committed suicide the other afternoon
by shooting himself in the head. No
cause can be assigned for the act. He
was in good circumstances and had
no family troubles.