The Columbus journal., 1886-08-04

RIPE and palstsble bansnas hav
been grown In . Sacramento garde,
this year without any sort Of srtihci
81 protection, and fully exposed {,
tho air.
HUGH n. Books, aliss W. q
Lennox Maxwell, recently convicte,
Of numbering Charles Arthur Prel
!! Ter, at St. Louis, was sentenced to b,
hanged August u sc.
BosroN hss eighty.three miles o
streets and pays $4,000 . year (,
keep them clean. Philsdelphi.
elaine 800 miles, and yet only allow
100000 . year for cleaning them.
A UTICA, N. Y.,genius has invented
. farm harness that weighs less thar
fifteen pounds, and does away with
whimetrees, traces and many of thu
cumbersome straps and buckles.
TIE Pittsburg Chronicle Gays thi,
iss curious world. Full Of changes,
There 10 moro danger stepping over
. gss-pipe in the streets in Pittsbura
now THAI in fighting . duel in France.
ABOUT the time the eastern part oil
Nebraska was suffering from the
drought, the western portion Was
suffering from the other extreme.
1t rsined for eight consecutive days
ct Chsdron.
Morris FITZGERALD, who was
sentenced to ten years In tho peni-
Tertiary for killing Dan McNeill,
eight years ago. he's served bis time,
and returned to Green wood, Neb..
the other day.
A FRI at MERGED, CAL, one day
week destroyed C. Hoffmsn's
warehouse, containing 1900 tons Of
also i've cart laden with wheat.
Lose, $4,000. The fire 10 supposed
to be incendisry.
CHURCH revenues have fallen of
very greatly in England, according
to London reports. A decrease Of
over $4,000 IL reported in q case,
and 100000 in another, within the
specified.
FRED Books Of Dsnville, w.,
while attempting to ride on . freight
train at Dunbar, Neb., the other day,
bad bis leg badly crushed and il
very low, it being undecided whether
o amputatc OF not.
In England the population doubles
fly years ; in the United, Csnsds
md Australia, In twenty-five years;
Germany, 10 los years and in
France and in countries using the
language, 40 years.
IT is said that there is nothing
Iweeter OF healthier to sleep OF than
pine pillows, and many ladies who
pend their summers in the piny
gather quantities Of the
fragrant pine needies for pillows.
ALMOND B. THOMPSON, cashier Of
he Provident savings bank Of St.
Louis, has sbsconded. The liabili-
les exceed tho assets by $4,000 and
he bank has been compelled TO close
ts doors and make an assignment.
The salt well at Lincoln, Neb., has
cached a strength Of brine of IS .
t is generally conceded that the
tandsrd of the salt brine should be
o.. Recently at the salt well .
lew flow Of eighteen degrees brine
las been struck.
WORD comes from Ashland that
he body of Jerome johnson, who
vas drowned there q few days ago,
While at work on the Platte bridge,
vas found on q sand bar about one
nd q half miles below where he
vas drowned.
A LITTLE newsboy of Orlando,
Fls., being suddenly told Of bis
death, dropped his papers
nd hurried homo. A citizen, pick.
ng them up, cold them through the
own, telling the circumstances, and
ealized $40, some Of them fetching
So piece.
A NEW York barber has invented
"bsrber's bib" which 10 designed
D abolish tho nuisance Of swsthing
be neck with towels and demoraliz-
" clean collars. The achievement
. sheet Of rubber with . hole in the
through which the victim'S
cad is pushed.
Two hundred acres Of cranberriss
!, the vicinity Of Tomah. Wis. own
i by j. 1. Case, of Racine, the B. L.
sker estate and Judge Ryan. have
ave been ruined by recent. forest
res. The loss 10 estimated at $780,
10. 1t will take ten years for the
ines to grow again.
TIE smallpox epidemic is getting
'orse every day and tho disease
roves fatal in sixty or seventy per
mt. Of the number Of persons attack.
l. On Saturday and Sunday last
ven cases Of smallpox
ere cent to the hospital at Santiago
e Chill, South America.
Matte RANDELL, of Morris, Conn,
a. brnlally shot and murdered the
her day by = farm hand named
He lad no motive for
e horrible deed. but It IL supposed
9 resented his iDsult aud, msddened 9