The Columbus journal., 1884-06-11
The new court house at Stanton 10

run WIN SalV8tlOulStS.
SITTING BULL is contemplating .
tour throughout the country.
IT is stated that New Jersey potato
bugs are eating tomato vines.
The decrease in the public debt
during May was $4,763, ,4l 20.
MISS ANNA f. DICKINSON was
lecturing last week in Kansas.
A GARGLE of cold, strong. black
tea is q remedy for sore throat.
JENNY LIND's oldest son has re-
Gently married an English girl.
Corn in the vicinity of Fremont is
said to be coming up very nicely.
SERVICE on the Oakdale and Mo-
brara mail route has been resumed.
Two hundred and fifty-four Glon-
chester fishermen were lost last year.
In southern and middle England
10000 women it is said steer canal
boats.
JAMES BUCHANAN's famous farm,
"Wheatland," has been sold to mar
ket gardener.
IT is claimed that Oscar Wilde and
Miss Lloyd were married at London
on the Sd inst.
In Sweden it is said that man
who has been drunk three times loses
the right Of suffrage.
IT is claimed that London has q
pauper population of 1928 outside of
asylums and aims houses.
The docket of the superior court,
recently in session at Hartford, Conn,
contains $50 divorce cases.
IT is said that health officers de-
stroyed in one week in New York
2l,5S5 pounds of bad meats.
DIR. WoRTRINGToN, of Detroit,
bishop elect of Nebraska, has not yet
announced his decision of acceptance.
The New Orleans Exposition is to
have the largest building in the world j..
1t has thirty-three acres of floor
area.
JUDGE WAKELEY's house at Omaha
was burglarized the other night and
relieved o: about $l75 worth of
property.
Two western inventors have re-
Gently obtained patents for the use of
sawdust, instead of sand in plaster
ing compositions.
A PlTTsBURG woman suggests that
the way for women TO get into the
pulpit is to cut down ministers
salaries to SD week.
MRS. JUDITH ELLEN FOSTER is
filling lecture engagements in the
west. She will visit Oregon and
Washington Territory.
The importation of coffee in 1883
reached 525.763, 40 pounds. or ten
and one-half pounds for each inhsb-
liant of the United States.
A coLoRED preacher in Buffalo gave
notice TO his congregation last Sun
day that he wanted less shouting and
more money in the future.
WITHIN two months the House of
Lords has had two Roman Catholic
accessions--the Earl of Abingdon
and Lord North, both converts.
MILLIONS of caterpillsrs are strip
ping the leaves from the live oak
trees at Cloverdale, California. This
is one indication Of dry weather.
The United States supreme court
has just decided that life insurance
policy holds good if the peraon in
sured commits suicide while insane.
AT Sidney, one Of the teachers is
about to be tried for maltreatment,
assault and battery upon one of his
pupils, a daughter Of Lieut.. Murphy.
A PARTY of 270 Mormon immi-
grants from Liverpool arrived the
other day in New York in charge of
missionaries. They left Immediately
for Utah:
II. II. PETIT, who runs the ferry at
the Oreapolis bridge, aud who had
been at work clearing the bridge of
driftwood, is supposed to have been
drowned.
Miss MARY A. RIPLEY read an e1-
cellent paper on "The Dignity of
Labor" before the Woman's Educa-
tional and Industrial Union of
Buffalo last week.
A DAUGHTER of George Wilhelm,
of Lima, Ohio, aged about fourteen,
Jumped the rope 256 times and fell
unconscious. Sha lay in that condi.
ton for twenty days before she died
HoN. A. j. SAMPSON, of Denver, by
specisl invitation delivered q sensible
and eloquent address at the Opera
House Colorado Springs, to q large
and attentive audience on decoration
day.
ARuN was made the other day on
the National Ssvings bank at Wash
ipgton City. The bank wa paying
promptly, and had no intention OF
taking advantage Of the thirty days
elsuse.