The Columbus journal., 1883-05-02

WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1888.
IT is claimed that Omaha has q pop
ulation of $4,000.
Ir is claimed that tho Hindoos wor-
ship 33O,OOO,OOO gods.
The Hon. Milton Courtright died
at Norfolk, Va, on the 18th ult.
J.W. LOVE, of Dodge county, Neb.,
has set out $1,000 trees so far this
season.
IT is stated that Nazareth has tel
egraph Office, the first opened in the
Holy Land.
Two hundred buildings in the
Cuban town of Las Manss burned The
other night. y
FIVE inches of snow on the level
fell in the vicinity Of Poteekey, Mich,
on the 26th ult.
HENRY d. MCDANIEL was elected
Governor of Georgia last week with
ont opposition.
WITHIN the past month in Nebras-
ka 57,l20 acres of state school lands
have been leased.
Two men were struck by lightning
the other day at Syracuse, Neb., and
one of them killed.
VIM. PACK, q wife beater, was given
twenty lashes the other day in the
Jail at Annapolis, Nd.
THERE are 437 vessels fitting out In
Chicago harbor. To man these crafts
1900 sesmen will be required.
THERE was a grain glut claimed last
week in Chicago; the stock of grain
in store is the largest on record.
Z. w. FOSTER, father of Governor
Foster, of Ohio, died on the evening
of the 26th ult., at Fostoria, aged SO.
GEN. BEAUREGARD, the famous con-
federate general, who ordered the
firing of the first gun in the rebellion,
is 81 years old.
The New York Board of Aldermen
are considering the project of statue
to Peter Cooper to be placed in front
of Cooper Union
WM. RUSSELL, q conductor on the
Panhandle road, was killed near
Greenville, Ohio, by being ran into
by q freight train.
A YOUNG man recently killed him
self in New York, leaving this note
for the reporters: "Cause of suicide,
nobody's business"
THREE hundred feet of the West
Shore track at Hampton Point, N. Y,
slid into the river the other day and
disappeared from sight.
The Scott bill has become q law in
Ohio; it taxes each liquor dealer in
the state $500 per year, and those
selling only beer and wine, 500.
The postoffice money -order system
will on July lst be extended to S34
additional Offices, principally in the
western and northwestern states.
RECENT news from London reports
that q box containing powder was
found in the rear of the Times Office.
The train was laid for an explosion.
The present outlook for the wheat
crop in Ohio, based on reports from
seven hundred townships, is the most
unpromising for the last eight years.
DIR. A. e. REcH, of Lampssas, Tex,
was pulled from his bed the other
night by unknown persons, who shot
him dead in the presence of his wife.
AN attempt was made the other
night to blow up the tower of the
Flint mill at Fall River, Mass, but il
only resulted in killing the watchman.
HENRY ERMAN was shot and seri.
ously wounded by Louis Kreifien,
near Nebraska City, one evening last
week. Kreiflen was arrested and
jailed.
A HAIL STORM and frost have dam
aged crops and fruit in the vicinity OF
Anna, Ill. Similar results are report.
ed from around Elkhart, Ind, because
of frost.
The Grand Island Independent il
authority for saying that there are to
be a number of changes in the q. s,
official positions in Nebraska before
July let.
KELLY was placed on trial again
last week at Dublin. An important
government witness swore Kelly was
not in Phoenix Park with the other
conspirstors.
IT is coming to be generally under.
stood that where there is no possible
use for an inquest over dead body,
tha. counties should not be put to the
expense of it.
TIE supreme court of this state has
decided that the loans made by the
Corbin Banking Company are usur.
ous. This decision affects a great
many farm mortgages.
ADMIRAL SEYMOUR and Lord
Wolseley, in recognition of their
Egyptian services have been awarded
f2,OOO annually each by Parliament,
to descend to their heirs.
AUGUST BoD1EU of Milwaukee pur.
chased farm near Watertown, Wis.
for cash, q short time ago, and the
other morning hanged himself on the
premises with fish-line.
FRED NYE says, "let rs buy Ire