The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1869-08-13

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NEWS ITEMS.
Bas~ A banker in Cincinnati, last week,
found a sack of four thousand guineas,
which he had slowed away behind an
old safe during the panic caused by the
John Morgan raid around that city and
had forgotten.
Bslsn a new circus trick Just introduce.
ed in Paris Is for man to leap from the
height of so feet and bound back again
to the original spot. The performer is
fastened to an elastic cord.
bay A man who lately died in Ger
many confessed on his deathbed to hav-
ing poisoned sixteen members of his
own family in order to inherit their
property.
Bsyn JEFF Davis's plantation is now
leased to one of his former slaves, who
pays $4,000 year rent, and employs
about the premises.
gsSH a belle of Agra, India, is in full
dress when swathed in two shaWls, with
thirty bracelets, fourteen pairs of ear
rings, seven necklaces, one nose pend
ray~ Thirty-fve young people were
badly poisoned by some ice. cream which
they ate at a picnic near Shelbyville,
Tenn, recently, and, after suffering in
tensely, every one began to slowly re-
cover, and all are now convalescent.
Day At Chicago lately, boy named
George Doyle tied the halter of pony
he was riding to his foot, and alighted
fn LOT hnn
frightened, and dashed Off furiously,
dragging the boy two blocks, when the
halter broke and saved his life; but h8
was terribly bruised, and his clothes
were nearly all torn off.
pAyA young man named Walker,
with horse which he was riding, was
killed by lightningn Washington coun-
ty, Iowa. The lightning passed through
| his hat, making blue mark down his
right side and came utat the top of his
boot.
De3" Tho Fredericton, N. B. EarH'er
relates that twelve men engaged in
numbering on Fish River lakes, in tho
northern part of Maine, were recently
poisoned 70 death by drinking tea in
which lizard had been boiled.
BAY A chinese giant, eight feet six
inches high, is said to have just arrived
in this country. We advise that he be
engaged as superintendent of police
in San Francisco to protect his fellow
countrymen from the California boys.
bs~ In an Iowa saw mill recently a
visitor touched swiftly revolving cir
cular saw with the fore finger of his
right hand, and it was cut off. In des-
cribing how the accident happened, the
visitor reached out the left fore finger
to the saw, when it too was cut off.
lsy@ Mrs. Mary Perkins and her two
daughters were drowned in Il mill pond
in the town of Wondequott, N. Y, on
Wednesday afternoon. They were rid
ing by when their horse took fright and
backed into the water, where it was
some twenty feet deep.
gey- An Illinois boy was very curious
about suicide in his neighborhood last
week, inquired all the particulars of his
mother, and the next day hanged him
self according to descriptionin in the barn.
BsSH a young man from Newark, sus-
pected of being Spanish spy, was quiz
city gagged and laid behind lumber
pile at Hoboken Saturday nigh t,by the
Cuban eycursionists. A wandering chip
gatherer found and released him.
gsiS" A Gloucester (Mass.) paper says
some whisky was recently bought in
, that city which accidently spilled upon
} the purchasers boots, when it curled up
the leather rs ifit had been near a hot
stove.
tzy- Last month /, 800 fruit trees of
splendid orchard at Benton HarbOr,
Mich. were girdled. By great exertions
they were saved, but last week the
scoundrels repeated the job effectually,
causing loss of S20,0 900.
Deya In Elbridge township, ILL.,, there
are two beech trees standing six feet
apart, which at height of sixteen feet
: from the ground unite and form one
tree, which runs up nearly 100 feet above
the point of union.
RAY The new marriage law of Ohio
prohibits marriages between first cous-
) ins, and of girls under sixteen years of
3 age, and of girls, or "young ladies'" un-
/ der twenty-one years of age without the
f consent of their parents.
Bsy~ On Wednesday night party dis
guised went to the Jail at Frankfort,
Alabama, and, after forcing the jailor
to surrender the keys, took two horse
thieves, Inman and Anderson, carried
them to the woods and shot them.
Bay A lady in Crawford county re-
Gently killed arOoster two years old and
found gold dollar in the fowls crop.
The coin had been lost II years before.
We wouldn't advise our readers to kill
, all their chickens In expectation offind-
ing gold dollars in their crops.
DsS- Father SwibofT, Catholic priest
died at Quincy on Monday and on We'd
nesday his remains were sent To st. Lou
is. They We're escorted to the steamer
~ "a m la
l including 900 children dressed in white
, and decorated with flowers.
| Day" Two females in Vincennes, Ind,
, on Monday, arranged for Il prize fight.
, A ring was formed by the sporting men
and the gladiatresses stripped to the
combat, when the police broke in and
arrested them.
BAY On Tuesday,a man perfectly nude
p walked through Walnut street. one of
the most fashionable thoroughfires of
Louisville, unmolested by the police
lie was insane from drink, and belong
ed to one of the most respectable fami-
/ lies.
e pectively ., and ii years We're drown
q ed in the Kalamazoo River, at Allegan,
. Mich, recently, by their step-mother,
u who was Jealous of them. The women
;. had been married to the father of the
a children but a few weeks. At the point
q in the river where the children were
drowned the water is only alb ut two
u feet deep, aud az the mother confessed
p the children We're held under the watel
until life was extinct.
IS gsls" A man named Hoefer, living on tn,
k outskirts of Hannibal, Missouri, muir
>. dered his daughter, ten years old. He
|, strangled her with strap,cut her body
le in two, tore her heart out, cut 1t open
& and swallowed the blood. He was ar
e, rested. When asked why he committed
81 the deed he replied that Christ was kill
~ ed, and il was no worse for his child I,
~ lin Ihnn l,hrisl. ihnI he Killed. her "a