The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1867-11-08
NEWS ITEMS.

Mr Judge Buckner, OF Kentucky, aged
sixty-tive, fell In love with woman
aged nineteen, and shot himself because
he couldn't get her. Rash youth!
sss- The Mrs. Lincoln 100000 fund,
60 be raised In subscriptions or one dol
lar each, has already reached the hand
some aggregate of six dollars.
kSr Birmingham is one of the health
lest towns In England. Its death rate
is eighteen to thousand. That OF
London is twenty-four and that OF Liv-
erpool is Atty.
pr Colored Green Sheperd Is running
for the Legislature Of North Carolina.
Who rules DER freemen should himself
be free, and who represents freedmen
should himself be green.
Mp The New York HtrdR thinks
State Senator Humphrey ought to go to
prison, because 1t Is "a mean job for a
Senator to sell himself so low As five
hundred dollars, and as improperly de-
pressing the market for Assemblymen
and lobbymen."
nH-Complete official returns show the
Ohio Legislature to stand thus; Senate,
Is Republicans and 10 Democrats
House, 40 Republicans and 90 Demo-
Gratis: showing seven Democratic ma
jorlty on joint ballot.
~ A woman of respectable standing
In New London, Conn.,, cowhided her
son In the public streets of that city the
other day because he refused to marry
to suit her wishes.
sNr Near Sherman, Texas, recently,
Mrs. Beatty, q widow lady, met her
death In most singular manner, She
was In the act of getting on horse,
when II common sewing needle, which
tn hne Il nattnbt in the saddle
and was driven in her body near her
breast, slightly piercing her heart. She
lived only about haitian hour.
nar A gentleman residing short
distance north of Huntsville, Ohio,
sold from his farm, few days ago, a
single-curled black walnut-tree to Il
Boston dealer for $500 The tree was
not an exceedingly large enc at that.
The purchaser, after the tree had been
felled, and its true value ascertained,
remarked that he would not take $1,000
for it. !
hsr Birthstone Brownlow was elected !
L. s. Senator, on the 23d instant, by |
the so-called Legislature of Tennessee, |
by "a majority over Stokes, also Radi,
cal. Another farce of an election will |
now be held for governor, in case !
Browniow does not intend to run both |
offices together, which is quite probable.
s6y- In Virginia City, Nevada, a poor
widow, in over-hauling an old vest of
her husbands, who had recently died, |
found dirty paper in the pocket, which,
on examination proved to be deed for
three feet of the Savage claim. The Sec
retary ofthe company informed her that
il was genuine, and that 81 800 were
due on it. She took the money, sold
the dirty paper for $4,000, and went
to her home and friends at the East.
par Joseph Cloud, of East Nantmeal,
says he raised pumpkin vine seven
hundred and eighty feet long, which
bore three hundred and forty-eight
pounds Of pumpkins, the largest of
which weighed sixty pounds.
~ A German named Miller, in
ulcer on his hand. The hand soon be-
gan to swell, and the swelling extended
over his whole body. 1t was impossi-
BILE to stop Its progress and Mr.. Miller
died In great agony.
~ A young Englishman of wealth
and culture, recently fell in love with
squaw In Omaha, Kansas, and mar
ried her. The next day she got drunk
and turned sOmersaults in the street.
The young Englishman of wealth and
culture at last accounts, was seeking for
divorce, on the ground OF incompata-
bllity of tastes.
~ A celebrated dentist says that in
the United States, in population of
thirty millions, there aretwenty millions
Of teeth lost annually by decay-all
caused by the use of bolted wheat,
which deprives the system of the lime
needed in the human teeth.
~ Sixty days ago Cheyenne, Dako-
Sab x.-aa lsrn~ will Il
has Mayor and Common Council,
publishes ordinances regulating city
life, and has newspaper, rum shops,
and various other incidents Of civilian
ton.
rr The Spirit Of Jefferson states that
the fish strap" near Mr.. Manning's
residence on the Shenandoah produced
as much AZ one thousand eels in one
night last week And it wasn't good
night for cells, either!
sGr A dog in the employ of the
United States, Mt Peoria, Illinois, stands
at the ladies' entrance to the posto flee,
and declines to allow gentlemen to enter.
~ While sinking a well in Fayette
County, Iowa, Captain Appleton came
upon the top branches of a buried for
est, twelve feet below the surface. The
trees were erect.
n1r A Democrat of Ohio came all the
way from Chill, in South America, to
vote at the recent election. That is the
right kind of a Democrat, and his pat
rlotic zeal should be initiated by every
one of the sluggards in this county
who allowed themselves to be kept
away from the polls at the recent cleo
ton.
sss- In one of the comic papers, Ben.
Butler il represented as manager be-
fore the footlights, apologizing to the
public, and saying that, owing "to n
break in the machinery, the farce of
Impeachment is unavoidably pOstpOn-
ed" In one OF the stage boxes is a fierce
military man with Radical program
me in his hand.
gaS- An Ohio editor has ciphered out
the number of grasshOppers in that
State. He estimates the number at
42,626, 100000. These placed in single
file, allowing one and a half inches to
each hopper, would reach a distance of
s,960,000 miles, or would girt the earth
2,490 times,
sse- The Mound City Kan Sentinel
says that at Twin Prairie some neigh
bors noticed that the prairie was on fire
and rallied for the purpose of putting ii
out, when their attention was called to
q man who was riding along the road
dismounting and setting fire to the
prairie In different places, some half q
mile or a mile apart. The neighbors
went in pursuit and captured and hung
him.
r6r In case at Albion, New York,
where telegraph operator, summoned
as q witness to disclose the nature of
dispatches which had passed through
his hands, refused to testify on the
ground that the dispatches were conf
dental communications and the private
property of the parties, the Judge ruled
that they were not privileged commu-
nications, or private property ia the
sense mentioned, and Issued an order
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