The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1868-02-07
Passing Events.

'round' his non-paying subscribers.
-- \ Dayton ohio stage horse has .
travelled $4,000 miles in seven and half
years.
The last new feat for a circus acrobat ,
co insists in turning II double somerset
over sixteen muskets with fixed bayo.
nets, the guns being fired ut the mo-
ment of the leap.
Every house in one street in the
First ward, Springfield, Mississippi,
was blessed with birth during 1867.
"A countryman in Portland after eat
ing three dozen raw oysters, told the
man to "stOp when he had opened ten
cents worth" The man stopped" ut
once.
- Prentice says that the aristocratic
negroes are in great rage at the preach-
ers who tell them they must be born
again. They are afraid that the next
time they might be born white men.
The Albany penitcntiary has earn
ed $22, 400, over expenses, during the
past year.
Why will people always spell buffa-
lp robe with a capital "B.n As Faxon
would say, buffalo robes do not come
rom Buffalo any more than goo G. G ries
come from geese.
The first load of provisions land
ed at Virginia City, Nevada, was
eighteen barrels of whiskey.
- A sexton in Ohio worked so hard
digging grave that he fell dead at its
side when it was finished.
Twenty-Five thousand pounds of
raisins We're produced by one farmer in
California last year.
"A Lowell widower, with thirty-one
children, in two sets, has just led to the
altar the third bride.
1t is stated that Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher has given $1,000 to fund for
the benefit of General Lees college.
"A negro grand juror in North Caro-
lima stole his employers pocket-book
on the way home from the courtroom.
The farce ofinquiring into the loyal
ty of the Kentucky members has al
ready cost 100000.
"A few days ago a lad found skiff
floating in the river in Jefferson City,
Mo. Besides revolver and some other
articles, there were three fingers severed
from mans hand lying in the skiff,
which were smeared with blood. Moth
ing further was known about the mys-
terious affair.
"A negro in Tennessee, while climb
IiiooNo Ills lOOllliS anu lCll II uiS-
tance of twenty-five feet on a solid rock;
but as he came down headforemost he
escaped without bruise.
Some three weeks ago very large
eagle made n sweep at goose in
CawoOds Gap three miles south of
Saltvlle, Va, but not having taken
good sight, as hunter would say over
shot the goose and impaled himself up
on snag, producing immediate DEATH
Hemeasured seven feet from tip to tip
of his wings.
A lady in Ft. Wayne opened de-
ftnct barn yard chicken. In the inside
OF said chick was apaper of pins, a small
breastpin, an Infants necklace of beads
with two gold clasps, pair of armlets
for small child, and ornaments to
adorn some fair lady's head, all being
in fine state of preservation.
a young lady Good Templar at
Bath, Steuben county,the otherevening
explained her position on the cider
question, in conversation with a young
gentleman of the same order. "Ah,5
said she, ~ got out of it nicely when he
asked me ii drank cider, Of course |
answered Mop You see since father
bought that barrel from Mr. H-that |
you like SO well, l have always used a |
straw, for | know our officers would not |
ask me anything about sucking"
AN awfully curious bore, learning |
that young lady was going to the city,
asked
"What motive is taken you thither,
my dear?''
III believe they call it a locomotive,
sir" was the innocent reply.
The "intrusive stranger wilted.
Jack Taylor, negro residing at
Champaign, Illinois, undertook few
days since to discipline his wife by hit
ting her over the head with chair. Just
as he was in the act of doing so, she
punctured his heart with n pair of
scissors, which caused his death almost
instantly. A corners jury absolved the
woman from blame.
A man in St. Louis drinks so much
whisky that several mosquitoes who
have bitten him, have died of the de-
lirium tremenS.
--Roeblng, builder of the Niagara
suspension bridge, has retired to farm
ing in Iowa. His little garden contains
$4,000 acres.
1t costs seventy-five cents to have
shirt washed in some parts of Ohio,
just now owing to the scarcity of water.
The Montgomery Mail says the
Alabama conventionistsm met on Thanks
giving day, and Immediately adjourned
the object being to save their per
diem. This little trick cost the people of
Alabama one thousand dollars.
An Illinois woman sold her hus-
band % another female for Sl20. The
purchaser came near being swindled by
paying the money before the delivery !
of the goods, but on threatening prose
cution the husband was handed over in
good order.
The number of women of mature {
years, that is, above the age of twenty,
who must remain single in consequence '.
of the actual disproportion of the sexes /
in England and Wales is between 300,-
600 and 100000. The number of adult !
woman who actually are single is ,537,- ,
900, of whom 100000 are between i
twenty and forty years of age.
AS train was approaching Peoria, !
H., the other night, the prairie was dis. :
covered to be on fire for miles around -
The flames leaped up to the height of r
thirty feet and spread for seven or {,
eight miles apparently. The train ran =
directly through the belt of flame which =
extended across the track. The heat !
was intense, but the current of air,
caused by the motion Of the train, pre-
vented the ears from being in the least \
blistered. The passengers on the train !
say it was splendid sight. 4
The following certificate was duly .
granted TO the parties therein named, :
and signed by an embryo justice. "To
all the world greetin, know We John
smith and Peggy Myers is hereby GER 4
titled TO go together and do us other
folks does anywhere in comporass pre- L
Elnct, and when my commission comes
J am to marry'eml good. and date'em j
back to kiyer accidents
In Frankfort, Kentucy, a negro r
committed an outrage on an Iash girl =