Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1864-02-27
EDITORIAL INKLINGs.

about the time the whale swallowed him
The Secretary of War has directed that
no volunteer shall be rejected Oh account
OF height who is at least FIVE feet,
A malignat lever is raging n the negro
camp at Lexington, Missouri. Over one
hundred have been carried off by it.
GOVERNMENT officers are to be required,
by speci al enactment, to write legibly.-
Salutary movement; bad writing is a
crime
The privateer Alabama has cuptured in
ali flty.eight sailing vessels and one
steamer, the Hattcras.
rcs- Gen. Meade, in his late Philade.
phia speech states that the Potomac Army
las lost siLce its organization 100000 men
killed and wounded
b&s- Reliable news is not to be had
! The telegraph is in the hands of tho
Abolitonists, and everything is made to
subserve single idea aud single wish.
Prentice of the Louisville Joarnal says
Those clergyman are certainly censu-
rabe who refuse to pray for Mr.. Lincoln.
We ,ught all to pray for the poor, and he
is mighty poor President.
"A London opiican has invented
Esprit hand, which appears on sheet
OF canvas, writes words, &c. 1t cannot be
taken hole Of, ncr can the writing be rub
bed out by material agency,
The condition Of the contrabands along
the Mississippi continues to be most de-
plorable. They are starving, dying and
rottening above ground by hundreds and
thousands.
CoLER1Dd, the poet and philosopher,
once arriving at an iun, called out "Waiter
do you dine here collectively or individu.
ally ?'"Sir," replied the knight of the
napkin, we dimes at six
Two young ladies living in Canada
met large wolf as they were going to
church, recently. Thoagb terribly fig ght.
ened, they managed to beat him th
sticks until the animal died.
B&l9-In the Arctic regions when the Their.
mometer is below zero, persons can con
verse at more than mile diatant. DR..
J Jamison asserts that he heard every word
| OF a sermon at the distance of tw, miles.
gsg" Senator Hale is kicking up dust
about the incapacity and extravag,nce of
the Navy Department. Does he want 10
) get Uncle Gideon put into prison SO as to
secure big fee Tor getting him out y
A little girl of three years Of age from
beyond the Mississippi, who had never
seen an apple-tree in full bloom beheld ole
in Ohio. She lifted her fat hands in ar
attitude of devotion and exclaimed -
, 'See Gods big boquet y
Bss- The McGregor Times says that .
/ young lady of that town who lately fell on
oae Of the slippery side. walks, passionately J
exclaimed, '.Before this winter is oyer
III have a man TO hang on to, see if
, don't"
! sag- In the transportation Of severa
hundred prisoners from Camp Chase Ohio
to Rock Island, Illinois, few days since
4 some fellow cut a hole in the bottom ofth,
car, through which ten escaped while thc
e train was running at rapid rate.
G gss- DR.. Liviugton, the great ex plorer o
that te'ra ,acognlta, Central Africa, is re
! ported dead When last heard from, h,
4 had received serious wound in his foot
The intelligence of his death is conveyed
t by letter Published in the England pa
;, pers of Cape Town on the 2lst OF Dccsm
: ber.
Has- In Governor Curtins inaugural h
hypocritically thanks the people Tor th
generous confidence with which they hav
sustained him. 1t would be more appro
'. pirate 10 thank Secretary Stanton for send
, thirty thousand soldiers into Pennsylvania
at the last election.
=. Bes= Parson Brownlow has gotten bacl
|, to Cincinnati. That tells the story. Th
- rebels are about to advance on Knoxville
,f What becomes Of old BrowDlow' ribal,
:. sheet is not known The rebel VentiiatOr
q making tracks for Cincinnati "Pictur
:. it, think Of it,"
q nsJ-The Loyal Disunionists of Lancas
ter were so sure OF success at the late cit
election, that they hired band and hat
). it in waiting at the Loyal League head
d quarters, ready to give blast Of triumph
4 on the counting off OF the vote. But alas
=. their blue lights were extinguished by
d blazing bonfire klnded by the democracy
r and shout of triumph over abolition trea
!. son and niger unionism.
TRAGEDY IN JoHNsTowN, CAMBRI
o COUNTY Y-The Johnstown Democro
,, states that on Friday morning last, Nj
'e Joseph Moore, duplicating one Mr.. Jorda
r Alarbourg, with criminality with his wifi
IS met him at the Post Office, and taking hir
J. by collar, told him to prepare for deaf
Il and fired five balls, most of which too
y effect, from which Mr.. Marbourg immed
,r ately expired,
II lT OUGHT TO BE KNowN.-The Gov
IL ernment will furnish each soldier VIII
ii who loses q Iimb in its service with anothe
D. one, and take care of him while the lin
s. is being fitted. Ifthere are soldiers abou
l. soliciting InndS TO enablo them to uat a.