The Columbus journal., 1883-07-25
THE JOURNAL.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 25. 1883.

WEDNESDAY, JULY s5. 1883.
M1ssoURf's coal fields cover 23,7OO
square miles.
LUMBER is worth $l60 q thous and
1t Cook City, Montans.
The daily cut of the Columbia river
saw-mills is about $4,000 feet.
EXTENSIVE forest fires are reported
from the Puget Sound country.
The mortality in New York City
last week rose from 1,05l to lilo.
IT is said that Minister Hunt 10
coming home from Russia for rest.
FoRrY-THREE deaths from yellow
fever occurred at Havana last week.
COPPER ore has been discovered at
the base of the Squaw mountains, wy
oming.
aF1LLEp" $40 gold pieces are said
to be in circulation in the Southern
States.
DocroRs gravely assert that the
perspiration coming out on bald heads
is poisonous.
C.R. MARo1N, the Oldest member
IS tho Nau York Stock Exchange,
died last week.
JUDITH GAUTIER, daughter of the
novelist, is said to be the best Chinese
scholar in France.
TIE well known old farm of Hor-
ace Greeley at Chappsqua will be sold
at auction, September 8.
A TURTLE weighing twenty-three
pounds was caught in Mill Creek,
Madison Co., the other day.
OUT of the l52 young men who ap-
piled for admission at West Point,
twenty-seve were rejected.
The London Lancet of q recent
date says no anxiety need be felt re-
Rarding Queen Victoria's health.
The natural bridge in Arizona is
said to far surpsss in size the well
known natural bridge in Virginia.
The Union Block in Clayton, ILL.,,
tho best in the town, burned the other
morning, causing loss of $4,000.
THREE female pauper immigrants
and their children were sent back to
Europe the other day from New York.
CAREY and Farrell, the Irish in.
formers, are in Newgate prison
awaiting shipment to British colony
ONE hundred pounds of gold was
cleaned up after sixteen days run at
the Carlisle mill, Grant county, New
Mexico.
1T is claimed that there are about
100000 trade dollars in circulation,
and over $33, ,OOO, 600 on hand in the
treasury.
The food in the Thames at Chat.
ham, Ont, carried away the Erie and
Huron railroad bridge the other
morning.
Miss MAMIE j. COLEMAN, of Cadiz
Ohio, has been appointed to a clerk
ship in the Interior Department al
Washington.
MANY other great politicians agree
with Thurman, who expresses the
opinion that Blaine is the greatest o.
living politicians.
In the Ottawa, (Ont.J district, the
hop crop has been rsvsged by small
green fly, and the yield will be fa1
below the average.
PLANTERS at Montgomery, Ala.
are very anxious about the cottoI
crop. They claim that worms have
appeared on many plantations.
The board of health of Pensscol,
has issued an order that yellow fevel
infected vessels arriving shall remain
ct quarantine until frost comes.
FROM Nebraska City we learn ths
the prospect for corn bids fair to ex
ceed the crop of last year. The pros
pect for winter fruit is also good.
AT Fall River, Mass, the other day
. stone weighing two tons fell dis
tance of forty feet, killing one maj
and severely wounding four others.
HARRY BRIGGS, of Philadelphia, Pa.
murdered his wife the other night, b!
cutting her throat at their home il
Taylor street. Briggs was arrested
Gov. SHERMAN and Judge Kline
opposing candidates for governor o
Iowa, have arranged for q public dis
cussion of the political issues through
out the State.
IT is stated that the much.abuset
sparrows made short work of the 10
Gusts in many places. They ate al
they wanted of them, and killed tn
balance for fun.
Two hundred and sixty Europeal
plants have become inhabitants O
America, but it is claimed that it hs
taken two hundred and thirty year
to accomplish it.
MRS. NARY SHAW SMITH, of Port
land, Oregon, has written q spirite,
reply to An article in the Oregonia,
which took exceptions to the literar,
ability of women.
Two negroes fought duel the othe
evening near Helena, Ark, one hav
ing Q musket and the other q rife
They fred with fatal effect, and bot
died during the night.