The Columbus journal., 1883-07-04

RECENT sdvices received at Wash.
ington City state thst Q general out
break of smallpox among the Arizona
Indians has occurred, and Commis.
sioner Price has ordered . supply OF
virus matter to be sent there at once.
A SEWARD boy put . slste pencil
into . toy pisssl and the thing wsst
of, accidentally, OF course, and plow-
ed q furrow round his hand that the
doctors bad to harrow, and give .
top-dressing. Toy pistols are not al
ways funny. ....-.
Tar republican state convention of
Iowa nominated the following ticket !:
b. r. Sherman. for governor; H. Man
ming, lieutenant governor Prof: J. W.
-Akess, - sup't public instruction !;
Judge Reed, Of Council Bluffs, for
supreme judge. ~ ....
i,S A COURT has held that sleeping car
companies are liable for valusbles
stolen Of their patrons while asleep.
on the ground that the sleeper being
helpless and in the charge OF the
company they arc responsible for in
reference Of this kind.
A RECENT break occurred in the
Chicago and Alton enbsnkment Of
the Mississippi, and 10000 acres OF
land under cultivation we're innndst-
ed. The damage through loss Of live
stock and other property 10 estimated
st half million dollars.
The New Zealand passenger ves-
sels, the Aurunui and Wsitara, COL
lided io the English Channel the other
night, and the latter went TO the bot
tom in two minutes. The steerage
and second-clsss passenger, number
ing twenty five were al drowned.
TIE river ct St. Louis had fallen
five inches on the 9th ult. The gosge
marks thirty.four inchss. The water
in East St. Louis 10 declining. The
general feeling 10 that all danger 10
over. At st Joe the river fell five
inches during the night of the 9Th.
Mr.. BLAINE's new book will be
known by the title Of "Twenty Years
of Congress. from Lincoln to Gar
field" 1t will show the remote and
immediste causes Of the civil war.
Fine steel portraits will illustrate the
work which will be complete in two
volumes.
NEBRASKA soil will receive more
rain than any other state We have
any knowledge of without injuring
her crops, and on the other hand her
soil will bear more drought than any
other state in the Union, without des-
troying her crops Of every kind and
description.
In Deervis, on the shore Of lake
Como, during . show performance
the building took fire and wss entire
ly destroyed. Forty-seven lives were
lost. After the fire wss extinguished
forty seven charred corpses were
found near the table, including the
bodies of the Snowman and wife.
The JOURNAL has not heretofore
| mentioned q decision of a u. S. cir.
cult judge given recently to the effect
that if parties desired so to do they
could contract to pay attorneys feet
| in the collection of q note. Our Ne
braska courts have held otherwise
under the statute, and will probably
continue so to do.
TIE suit brought some time ago by
the United States against Robert
Gleason, proprietor of Hussey's ex'
press in New York, to recover penal
ties for violation Of the postal law in
conducting post-o Office business and
delivering letters over post-ofice
routes, ended the other day in YER
dict for the government.
DE-. ISAAC j. HATHAWAY, of Phila.
delphis, in whose cellar the remain,
of many infants were found, was con-
vfcted the other day of having per-
formed . criminal surgicsl operation
upon q servant girl in April, 1881, and
was sentenced to pay . fine Of $500
and undergo seven years imprison.
ment, the fullest extent of the law.
The recent changes made in the in.
ternal revenue collection districts
have been promulgated by an s1scu.
tive order from the President, which
took effect the let of July OF a. soon
thereafter o. practicable. The mum.
Der of the districts 10 reduced from
l26 to 81, . reduction Of forty -four
Nebraska and Dakots 60 together.
MAJOR WAssoN received . severe
sentence last week that he be dis.
charged dishonorsbly from the ser.
vice, to be confined at hard labor in q
peniteptisry for eighteen months and
to have the facts respecting his crime
and its punishment published in the
newspapers Of lowe, the state from
which hs wss appointed to the army.
CAPT. JOHN TURNER, of savannah,
Ga, recently took into that city q
monstrous turtle weighing 400 lbs,
which he caught on the beach u
Rsccoon Keys, near Osssbsw Sound.
The female had just gone up on the
beach to deposite her eggs. The cap.
tain searched aud found her nest,
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