Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-12-01
GENERAL NEWS.
The Bank of Danville has declared a
semi annual dividend of per cent.

The Bank of Danville has declared a
semi dividend of s per cent.
FREMoNr's Mariposa mines have yield
ed s17l 600 during the last five months
THE population of Philadelphia is $685..
O34 In 1850 it was s,762. Increase,
l59,272.
Gov DENN1soN has issued an address
to the people of Ohio, soliciting aid for the
suffering people of Kansas.
RANDALL CLARK was fined at the late
term of the circuit of Lowndes county,
Ala, 81 900 for not feeding his slaves
well.
HUGH ATKINSON, of Addisonville,
Bucks county. has u mammoth COW and
fine young calf, which weig together up
wards of 1900 pounds. Such beef are
rather scarce.
SINGULAR TnEFT-The corner stone
of the ST. Stephens Church, in Providence, ,
r. l., was displaced, a few nights ago, and
robbed of the box of records, &c. The
box contained nothing of intrinsic value.
Bishop Odenhcimer, of New Jersey,
met with an accident at Bordentown, one
day last week, by which the cap of his
knee was fractured. The mishap will
confne him for some time,
The cultivation of the silk worm is said
to be complete success in California
Specimens of cocoons, floss, and twisted
silk were exhibited at the late Mechanics s
Fair in San Francisco. California is yet
destined to become great wine and silk
producing State.
On Wednesday last the 18th inst
Two men by the name of Levi Sands and
--Bach; both of Hazleton, in sport
commenced to wrestle. Sands threw Bach
twice and then complained of feeling sick
and in less than half an hour he died 1t
is supposed that he had rupturcd blood
vessel.
SAMUEL A. BARNES, who was inst
elected Canal Commissioner of tho State
of New York, died ON Wednesday night
of last week, aged fifty years. Gov. Nor
gan has appointed Ogden n Chaplin, who
was beaten last year, for the same Office,
by the fusion candidate, in Mr.. Rarpes' S
stead.
"THE MASSACHUSETTS, ScuooL. -
Those who talk so glibly Of Southern seoes
sion seem to have forgotten that the rec.
ords Of Massachusetts, legislation have il
them resolutions to the following effect
RcSs[Oed, That the annexation Of exas
is tpSo tacto, dissolution of the Union,
| ReSolvea, That Texas being annexed
Massachusetts, is out of the Union.
These resolutions stand unrepealcd
yet this same Massachusetts, with her per
sonal liberty ILLS, negro suffrage, ne gre
equality, is the fountain head and source
of all aggressions against the South and
is most loud mouthed in her denunciation
of disunion, uttered from the mouths which
preached disunion at the Hartford Con.
ventlon.
THE Catawissa Rail Road Co., now pay
promptly every month, on certain days
all debts contracted by them during the
previous month.-They have also COM
monccd paying off old due bills, which
under the act of Assembly of 2lst March
1860, were made first lien upon the road
payable within three years. They have
already paid about $1,000 of those old
debts, which in the aggregate amount tc
S75 900. This has been since the lst Of
October, from which time the new Com
pany has had possession of the road. The
interest of the Company and Of those who
hold their paper are identical, and the re
suit of putting the Company to cost an(
trouble, will only have the effect to en-
barrass them, and render them unable t.
pay SO soon as they could, if allowed t,
take their own course during the thre
years.