Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-11-17
GENERAL NEWS.
TIE sum thus far received by the Pope
exceeds 81 100000.

exceeds 81 100000.
The Prince of Wales paid $500 for his
special train from Albany to Boston.
THERE are 3sl gas companies in tho
Union, with capital of nearly s50,oOO,-
900.
! RELIABLE statistics show that 1000
out of 100000 in New York city 60 to
church on Sunday.
There was S3o5, 900 900 of capital repre-.
sentcd at the late Railroad Timetable
1 Convention in Cincinnati.
A SUM equal to $4,000 is yearly paid
out of the royal mint of England, in ex-
change for worn out silver.
A LETTER from the Commissioner of
Pensions says there are now but SO survi-
vors of the Revolutionary Pensioners.
TEA has been received in New York
from Japan 1t can be furnished at low
er cost than China teas of corresponding
grade.
A BLACK eagle was shot in South
Whitehall, Lehigh CO., on the lst inst,
which measured six feet ten inches across
the wings.
4 GREEN corn, beans, radishes and the
general run of early vegetables, are in the
market agaiu from the second crop, at
Brownsville, Texas.
SLErGuING IN VERMoNr.-The people
of Windham, (Vt.,) were enjoying them
selves sleighing the beginning of last week,
the snow being five or six inches deep.
"MuRDEn WILL OUT. "A man, named
Fid, has been arrested at Altica, Indiana,
= charged with the murder Of Col. Davenport,
at Davenport, Iowa, about Ia or 10 years
. ago
The new mills put up on the site of the
Pcmbcrton Mills in Lawrence, Mass, will
be in full operation in January next
They will give employment to 1000 op-
erativcs.
A VEIN of copper ore has been discov-
: cred at Carbondale, Luzcrne county, in
this State. This is an addition to the min
eral wealth of our State, not thought Of
heretofore.
I Ir is estimated by reliable authorities
, that 900 negroes voted in Ohio on the
second Tuesday of last October. OF course
they all voted the Republican ticket, and
| thereby elected it. Shame shame !
TIE SYRIAN SUFFERRRs.-The further
sum of $50 90 has been received by the
, committee for the relief of the destitute and
suffering in Syria. This swells the amount
, subscribed for this cause to $40 ,007 80.
\ TRAVELLER who stole divers article:
from store in Corydon, Iowa, was detec.
ted by box of pens, which vas among
the stolen articles. The pens were spilled
, all the way from the store to his wagon.
PETERsoNs Detector cautions the pub
; lie to refuse Elves on the Western Bank o
Philadelphia. Over 5000 in spurious
bills have been recovered. The notes arc
well engraved, and good limitations of the
genuine.
t AT the recent election in Maine, Mr.
E Ralph Farnham, the only survivor of the
battle of Bunker Hill now los years o
age, walked six miles to vote. lie ha,
voted at every Presidential election since
h the adoption of the Constitution.
y THE last number Of the North Br,tisj
C ReUie,O contains an article on mctcorology
in which severe winters are stated to b
q connected with the appearance of spots oil
the sun. If the writer's theory be correct
: the next winter should be very cold one
y y, Andrew b. Hutchinson, son of jess
Il Hutchinson, of Milford, n. H., and
Y, brother of the well known Hutchinso
e singers, died, at the Lunatc Hospital, c
q South Boston, of chronic insanity, o
4 Saturday, He was fifty two yeras of ag'
A THE St Louis (Mo.) Democrat state
that total of 80 900 buffalo robes hav
!" been received in that city during the pres
e ent year. These robes are all tanned b
in the Indian squaws; their lords of creatio
st do not stoop to such works of fart-they
40 the hunting.
in DEFALcATIoN IN CHICAGO, ILL.-Tl
r Chicago (Ill,) Tribune says that raj
- road official has recently left that city,
y haste, and that an examination of his az
N counts with the company exhibit defc
w of from SIT, 200 to $50, 900 He was VIII;
IN is called "fast'' young man.
IF ArpoIsTMENTs.-Tho following al
- pointments have been made by the Pres
dent: Theodore B. Wheaton, United Stat,
Attorney for the Territory of New Mexico
, j. Hosford Smith, of New York, Consl
:. General at Constantinople ; Daniel !
IL Robinson, of Michigan, Consul at Aspil
a wall.
lis AN IRoN PALAcE.-The Pasha
elf Egypt is establishing a magnificent palat
if built of French cast iron, for a museum
, antiquities, to be filed with relics of ant
y quity found in Egypt, in the execution
~ which , 800 men are now employed und
an the direction of Maricttc, the French arc
r. ~ologist.
co. COLD WEATHER IN FRANCE.-Extrt
d, ordinary cold weather has been experience
lis in the South of France. A Paris lette