Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-04-25
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The wleat crop in Wayne county, it is
feared, will be almost an entire failure.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis has been granted
permission to visit her husband at Fortress
Monroe
The arrest of all the beggars and street
sweepers has been ordered in New York
A Negro woman in Newmarket, Tenn.
threw her child to the hogs.
tbs guest of John Mitchell, in Paris. He is
soon coming to the United States
The Grand Lodge of PENNSYLVANIA Free
Orr, to draw upon their treasury for the
sum Of one thousand dollars in aid of the
Grand Lodge in North Carolina
On the 18th inst, one hundred and fifty
negroes at Panama attempted to get up a
revolution, but were surrounded by troops
and shot down like sheep" Twenty-Five
or thirty were killed and one hundred made
prisoners.
You have lost your baby, I hear?
said one gentleman to another Yes. poor
little thing it was only five months old
We did all we could for it. We had four
doctors bhstered Its head and feet put mus
tered poultices all over 1t, gave it nine calo-
mel powders, leeched Its temples, haditbled
and gave 1t all kinds Of medicine; and vet
after a week 5 Illness he died.
Albany April lI.-This afternoon
FTenchman, whose name has not yet been
ascertained, and a man named Michael Chcs-
nut, had an angry discussion over political
matters in Broadway, during which Ches-
nut struck the Frenchman, powerful blow
on the head, killing him Instantly. Chestnut
has not yet been arrested.
-AS ACTIVE OLD CHAP.-The Oldest
man in Rushville county, Illinois is Mr..
Jordon Rhodes, of Huntsville He is over
one hundred and four years of age splits
rails, carries easily a two-bushel sack of meal
on his shoulder, and can walk as briskly as
any OF his neighbors.
Gen. Geary, the abolition candidate for
Governor IN this State Is in favor OF contin-
uing the Freedmen or negro-Bureau.
If the taxpayers are in favor of continuing
it, and paying over IA million and half of
dollars annually to keep it and its negroes.
they should support Geary
The Pennsylvania House passed a bin
on the 4th to prevent negroes from beingex-
Guided from passenger cars used for the ex-
elusive Conveyance of whites. Every vote
for the bill was cast by Republicans The
Democrats unltedly opposed it. Thus the
leaders Of the negro-Republican party are re-
moving every obstacle to the enforcement Of
negro suffrage
THE REASON WHY EGGs DEcAY.-The
reason eggs decay is that the atmosphere
penetrates the pores of the shell, evap0rates
the watery portions inside, and decay begins.
\ remedy to immerse the eggs i'm boiling
water for a few seconds. Its easily done.
for an hundred eggs In a basket can be dip
ped at once into tub of boiling water. They
are to be held IN the water long enough to
count twenty at fast rate The heat of the
water cOngeals the surface of the albumen
Immediately under the egg shell. thus form
ing an alr-ught coating which prevents eva
poration and decay.
"A Yankee and Frenchman owned pig
in copartnership. When killing time came
they wished to divide the meat. The Yam
kee was very anxious to divide so that he
could get both hind quarters, and persuaded
the frenchman that the way to divide was to
cut 1t across the back The Frenchman
agreed to do it on condition that the Yankee
would turn his back and take his choice of
the pieces after it was cut in two. The Yam
kee turned his back accordingly.
Frenchman-Vich viii have re piece vid
re tau on, or ze piece vidout the tail on?
1ankee-The piece with the tail ON /?
.frenchman-Zen, by gar you can take
hlm, and L take re ozer one.
Upon turning around the Yankee found
that the Frenchman had cut of the tail and
stuck 1t into the Pigs mouth.