Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-05-20
News Items,

Inc grain crop OF the w eSt, the COM
ing season, promises to be unusually large.
The trackmep Of tho Lackawsnna and
Bloomsbufg Railroad struck tor higher
wages last.Neek!a ID
"A shaft is being sunk on the farm Of
John Cope. East Bradford, Chester county
in search Of gold. -..----- '
The old Baptist Church in Lewisburg
ms beon torn down preparatory toiputting
The population of Iowa exceeds o mil.
lion, where, twenty. five years ago, the red
man alone kindlod camp-fires. 'I, n IN
The belle Of Portland does tho house.
work for her parents, and In the afternoon
drives out with tho finest span Of horses in
town.. ..,..-f,'t '.E...-....I.
The music in the Boston churches, it is
asserted, costs $4,000 per annum. Ono
church pays its chief artist $1,000 and OK.
pends on the choir $1,000. Pm ~ ir1-
Three hundred tons Of nickle have
been taken out of mine near Pricetown,
Berks county. Specimens have been sent
to the mint Of Philadelphia for the purpose
Of testing It. 's1 p, '"aF'' '.' ''-
The manager Of the Star Glass Works
at Norristown was obliged to suspend opera
tions few days ago ON account OF the re-
fusal Of the men to go on with their work.
In Tamaqua there is manufactury TO
convert coal dust into blocks Of COAL by
means of bituminous matter. The blocks
have been used for locomotive fuel and are
found to answer splendidly. ~ "a. ar5lb er
--IIerdic Of Williamsport, has purchased
little steamer, capable, Of carrying about
twenty-five passengers, which he has placed
on the Susquehanna at that place. u can
run up the river about twenty miles.
Jerome, the New Haven clock man, is
dead. .t.., ,.ols o. ..s.slf lf' 'aa"- Sly
Miles O'I.eily is making book Of his
poetry. .,, 80 .....-s l.,u .. -r
Massachusetts has been borrowing $3,-
100000 from the Bsfngs ...#.tf..
The prairie wolves are becoming trouble
some in Morris, III.
Minister Bancroft is to negotiate COM
plercial treaty with Prussia. 81
The strawberry crop will be the largest
this year ever gathered in the State Of Del
aware. - ..-4 g., ...,... r.'r
The Ledger pays Fanny Fern $1,000
per ann,,m. a-..... ....r .,.
Prince Napoleon has presented the
Imperial Library with specimen COL
lection Of American bank notes. :.
The wife Of Mr.. Pancake, at Peoria,
Ill, has got divorce from him. No lasses
for that pancake. o.. ..,f sa. m
| About six hundred permits we're issued
for new dwellings in Philadelphia last month.
1T is doubtful, if more sugar was ever
made in one seasonin Vermont that in this.
1t is selling from II to l3 cents.
The buffalo gnats are killing the stock
| throughout the Southern country. The
stock along the river counties suffer most.
The late spell Of bad weather has increased
| the gnats. Planters in some cases have lost
| their entire stock. a'# ..
| Governor Joel Parker, Of New Jer-
sey, it is announced, has given yarmouth
College $1,000 towards purchasing and fitting
up tract of eight acres Of land, as college
park. .-.s ....t,. .,. ..,
A little daughter of Mr.. John Taylor, Of
Tamaqua, was poisined recently by eating
the leaves Of young laurel in mistak for tea
berry. t
- Arrangements arc now being made for
holding agricultural fairs in at least three
lourhs Of the counties of the State.
The Pennsylvania Historical Society
has received the gilt of a watch taken by an
Indian from British officer whom he slew
at the battle of Braddock's Field, in 1855.
Tho Franklin Foundry and Machine
Shop at Harrisburg have been destroyed by
| fire. u'
There arc over two thousand United
States soldicrs stationed in Virginia.
"A tornado swept over Shanghae, ILL.,.
on the Sd instant, blowing down fourteen
houses, and killing four persons and wound
| ing forty. '....... ....-...... ... ,
| Looms are being forced in Mexico to
pay the troops and for the support Of the
civil government.
The Mexicans arc committing outragcs
on Americans. On such an occasion at
Monterey, the crowd rhouted, death to
Americans" .... -.. . ,.
twenty negroes have just been elected
to the Georgia Legislature. OF such is the
Republican party, South. Il,
| The negroes have bureau by which
they are cared for. Where is the soldiers
bureau? Ask at the gate of a cemetery, or
the door Of hospital. . @aA
The nickle mines near Reading are
thought to be inexhaustable. 't l' '
70 The new bridge over the Susquehanna
at COLUMBIA, Pa, sto be erected on the
| piers Of the old one, and will be completed
| BY the first Of January next. fe -a, o..
The monument to deceased officers and
| and soldiers of the lO4th Regt., p. Y, now
| in course Of erection at Doylest Town, Pa: !,
will be dedicated on Saturday, May 3d. 1t
is to cost $4,000. 's .l ...'a ss-'
The only counties in Pennsylvania
through which no railroad passes, and the
limits of which are not likely to be soon
touched by railroad. are Fulton, Forest,
Potter and Green. '.- . '
john Bannan, Esq, senior member Of
the Potsville Bar, died suddenly at his resi-
deuce in Pottsville, on Sunday, Sd inst.