Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-03-04
NEWS ITEMS.
. Smallpox is virulent in Chicago.

-omu'''Pox IL Vlrulent IN Chicago.
~Arizona grows caduceus fifty feet high.
n;c.lre!and has population Of five and .
half millions.s MI VI W W H
| The transfer Of Msximillisn's q corpse
cost s24o,0O0. VI W NJ
"A stamp duty is to be placed on tobacco
in oil its forms.
Another Fcnian scare'has possession Of
the Canadian people.
Harrisburg has upwards Of one thous.
and Odd Fellows.
The free railroad law has passed both
Houses Vt the Legislature.
The Philadelphia Germans have raised
$67 ,0U0 for their theatre. t.asI '''l'
lodging on the floor is one dollar q
night in Cheyenne. lp9s'.NI, % -. ID
1t casts Wisconsin nearly $4,000 an.
nually for bounties on wild cats. u riel.
-Snow to the depth Of twelve inches has
fallen in several sections Of Texas, .e5 ,..
The Democrats carried the city election
in Altona, on Saturday last. ..r ,,.... ...
-Low-necked dresses are the mode In
Paris, and they are daily becoming lower.
Not one in ten Of the loyal whites in
Alabama voted for the new constitution.
There are laboring men in New York
willing to work merely for their board.
Agriculture assumes new phase in
Nebraska. Farmers are planting forests.
"A young woman is walking from New
Lisbon, Ohio, to Pittsburg for $500 and o
husband. .5ge gsu B., i a'Its IgI
Revenue from distilled spirits, from
1863 to 1867, conclusive, five years, $780,
256, 1925.
Little cotton will bc planted iu Texas
this year. Corn and pork will be the prin-
cipal crop. -i' ylyf 1Ia17' : '
"A man in New York has expended
$50, 900 on tickets Of Havana Lotteries, aud
received in return-0! .. ........ '....
"A young woman at tho West was run
away, with by cali, whose horns became
caught in her crinolinc. ''-
AT last accounts the cholera continued
t. rage in Buenos Ayres, the deaths mum.
bering from $50 to $50 per day.
The recent cold weather in New Orleans
has killed the bananas, turning the fruit
from brilliant green to black. ....
Through the breaking Of q coal.oil
lamp at Ottumwa, Iowa, on the 2lst ult.,
over $500, 900 worth Of property was de-
stroyed. sod, f.le. rrG...I .alu2 l-
AN Illinois man attempted to hang him.
self the other day, but was cut down BY his
wife, who beat him soundly for his foolish.
ness. 1886. 90
Philadelphia is now said to be the eco.
ond manufacturing city in the world, and
has twelve hundred and sixty.six mills and
manufactures. t.. ........' .. ...... .
The robbins Of the North have been
driven South by the severity of tho weather
and the people Of Pensacola are shooting
and eating them. sea -,u-.
$4,000 in counterfeit fractional cur
rency was seized by the police in Chicago,
last week, and four alleged counterfeiters
were arrested.
| 1T is currently reported that the Hon.
John W. Maynard will be appointed by
Gov. Geary, President Judge Of tho new
Lycoming County judicial district.
General Mcclellan has gone to Florence
from Vienna, with his wife, whose health
requires the change. The day before his
departure he he was entertained at dinner BY
the Archduke Albert.
WIN. Cameron, Esq, of Lewisburg, is
the oldest living Bank President in this
State il, he has been at the head of
a bank longer than any man now in the
banking business in Pennsylvania.
There isa woman living near Spring
Run, Franklin county, but twenty-three
years Of age, who is wife and mother, sis.
Ter and sister-in law, an aunt mother.n.law,
| step-mother, and grandmother.
| The lower branch Of the New Jersey
Legislature has adopted the resolution pre.
viously passed by the Senate, Withdrawing
the consent Of the State to the ratification Of
the Constitutional Amendment. ru
Within the past year mn less than eight
thousand seven hundred and sixteen patents
for useful inventions and DESIGNS, were is.
sned from the patent office at Washington.
Truly we are an inventive people.
One Thousand Seven hundred and
twenty.three infants, who had been trown
away BY their parents. were picked up in the
streets of New York last year, of which
number ssvcn hundred and forty.nine now
FIJI the children's nurseries on Randall's
Island. ~ a.t.ad I..t la'4I
AN act repeating the law allowing ne.
groes to ride in the passenger railway cars
was indefinitely postponed in the House of
Representatives ofthis State on the Goth ult.,
by strict party vote-all the Radicals for
the neeroes-all tho Democrats for the
white men. 2 7 ..a .' "
| -WBEAT.-The best and the highest
priced wheat is grown in California The
best white California wheat is quoted in
New York atS3. 81, while the best Michi-
gan amber wheat is quoted at s2.5l. The
exports Of grain from California are now
almost equal to the exports Of gold. '