The Columbus journal., 1884-12-10

FIFTY per cent. OF the cholera cases
al Naples were fatal.
IT is said that the finances uf Ger
many are in bad shape.
New JERSEY has bears in the wilGs
o; her southern counties.
A RESIDENCE Of sheet iron is being
erected in Sherman, Texas.
"A CHAPEL tor religious services is
the latest convenience tor rail travel
, Miss SARAH COwELL is giving a
course OF readings aud recitations in
Boston.
ITALY las 29, ,OOO. 900 inhabitants aud
it is said only l,OOO, 600 subscribe for
newspapers.
QUEEN VICTORIA has granted the
widow OF Belle, the composer, an
annuity of 800.
PROBABLY within ten years the
Union will number orty-eight in-
stead Of thirty-eight states.
JEWETT's railroad salary rs presi-
dent has been $4,000 Il year tor ten
years. lie can afford to retire.
HALL county voted bonds 1T the
last election TO build II bridge across
the Platte, south OF Wood river.
The manufacturers At Fall River,
Mass, are sending AL agent to Mexico
to find ii new market IOr their print
cloths.
lT Is stated that there Ia u foot Oi
snow up ut Duluth, aud it has dritte,l
badly, 50 that travel is greatly im-
paired.
SENATOR MANDERsoN Is to be
placed al the head Of the committee
on printing, rice Senator Authouy,
deceased.
"HELLo, there " hat do you want -
asked n Brooklyn parrot Of q burg lar
the other night, whcreupon the bur
glar lett quick.
EGGs packed iu weii-dried ashes,
and SO AS not TO touch each other,
have been kept perfectly sweet ior
twelve months.
j. L. MALLALIEU, regent ut the uni
versity, has just accepted II lucrative,
important aud responsible position in
the reform school.
lr has been discovered that Vessels
at London supposed TO be loading
provisions were really loading muni-
tions OF war tor China.
The young mems republican club
of New York city voted the other
night to retain in membership no one
who voted or worked against Blaine
and Logan.
JULIA HOLMES SMITH has been ap.
pointed by Manager Burke, OF the
New Orleans exhibit, manager of the
woman's department of that exhibit
for the Northwest.
WM. Il. SMITH, of Richmond, Va,
chief clerk in the Office of the auditor
of public accounts, was arrested the
other night, charged with the enbez-
element of state funds.
Miss PATRoNA CRUMr, of West
Point, Miss, has prepared a collection
of the insects OF that state for the
Exposition that embraces several hum
dred classified varieties.
WORD received from Paris states
tha, Ferry has officially informed the
powers of the complete cessation of
ChOiCId III FIauCc anu Iclucstcu "
abolish quarantine against France.
The judges of the English court OF
appeals have decided that Captain
Dudley and mate of the wrecked
yacht Mignonette, who killed boy
in order to keep themselves alive,
were Ouilty Of mur1er
News from Lincoln, ILL.,, states that
William II. Burns, the father of Fora
Burns, murdered year ago, shot at
o. A. Carpenter, her supposed mur-
derer, the other day, but missed him.
No arrests have been made.
Miss EMILY HARPER, of Baltimore,
who lately gave reception to the
prelates in attendance at the Catholic
Council, is a daughter of Robert
GoodlOe Harper and granddaughter
of Charles Carroll of CarrolltOn, Md.
JAMES Z. PATTEN was arrested the
other day at Omaha. on suspicion of
being Pusey, the defaulting chief
clerk of the Kansas penitentiary.
Patten answers the description of
Pusey in eVery particular. but claims