The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-12-27
NEWS

Bubil9iiCi tNb thO tSO vi ics
Samuel G. Turner, prominent poll.
ticial of Northern Pennsylvania, died
on Friday at Wilkesbarrc, after short
| illness.
The Secretary of the Treasury has re.
commended that the appropriations for
the new Post-office in Philadelphia be
increased to s3,OOO,OOO.
Columbus, December 21.-George II d.
Gregory, who was crushed on Wednes'
day, while coupling cars, died yester.
day. 1t is mystery how he lived so
long. For forty. eight hours no pulse
was perceptible, and tho whole lower
portion of his body was benumbed and
paralyzed. Nevertheless, he remained
conscious to the last moment.
Wabash and Michigan Railroad became
disabled between Warsaw and Goshen,
Ind, on Saturday night. The engineer
and fireman were frozen to death in at
tempting to reach house one mile dis.
tant.
There is said to be lower stage of
water in the Mississippi at present than
at any time for SO years.
The House Judiciary Committee have
agreed to report bill increasing the
Presidents salary to $50, 900 per annum,
after March 4th, 1873.
David G.. Croly has resigned the pos.
ition of managing editor of the New
York World
The ship Franklin, which sailed from
Hamburg several days ago for San
Francisco, with large number of emf.
grants on board, stranded on the coast
of Vineland, an island on the Neither
lands, in the North Sea, and went to
pieces. Eighty persons are known TO
have perished.
The U. s. Senate has confirmed the
nomination of Ward Hunt as Justice of
the United States Supreme Court, and
Samuel F. Phillips as solicitor of the
Internal Revenue Bureau.
U. S. Treasurer Spinner decides that
national banks have the right to refuse
U. S. fractional currency offered in pay.
ment of debts due them-as forinstance
where $40 is offered in ten cent notes.
When offered as deposit, to the credit
of the depositors' account, the banks
may receive or refuse it at their dis.
cretion.
According to the returning Cuban
correspondent of the New York Her.
aid, there are still 10000 Cuban insur.
gents in the field. President Cespedes
told him that if there were sufficient
arms there would be 40, 900 more troops.
The insurgents have plenty Of ammu.
milton, but not en0u gh guns. The cor
respondent thinks the struggle will be
"indefinitely prolonged, unless outside
parties intefere."
Jay Gould has compromised with the
Erie Railroad Company, by agreeing
to refund the nine millions Ofdollars for
which they had brought suit against
him in the courts.
A train on the Buffalo, Cory and
Pittsburg Railroad, ran Off trestle
bridge near Prospect Station, yesterday.
The wrecked cars caught fire and were
partly consumed. AT the latest accounts,
10 dead bodies had been taken from the
debris, and 80 passengers were known
to have been injured.
A freight train of thirteen ears and
locomotive, on the Jacksonville, Madi-
son and indianapolis Railroad, Jump.
ed the track" at Henysville, Ind, yes
terday, and was totally wrecked. The
engineer, fireman and brakesman we're
killed.
A despatch from Wabash, Ind, re-
ports sixty locomotives frozen up on
the Toledo, Wabash and Western Rail
road, between Huntington and Peru,
Ind, and they had been laid up forty
eight hours. The cattle, hogs and sheep
on the trains were frozen to death, and
many of the men employed on the rail
road had their limbs badly frost-bitteu.
Cows are bringing about $50 at auc.
tions in various parts of Brad ford couu-
ty.
Paris, December PA dispatch from
Bordeaux says the Liverpool packet
Germania went ashore on Saturday |
evening during violent storm, on
sand bank at the mouth of the river |
The watersooa began to break |
over the vessel, and the passengers and |
crew were compelled to take to the rig |
sing, from which thirty persons We're
washed away and drowned. The re-
after passing the entire night
n their perllous position, were rescued |
IN Sunday morning by French steam
ship.
There were two large fires in New
York city yesterday. BY the first, Bar
lum's Museum and Menagerie, Grace
Chapel, and Grote's ivory establishment
we're destroyed and several other build.
ngs were partly destroyed or damaged.
The Academy of Music narrowly escap.
I'd destruction. Only two of the animals
n Barnum's Menagerie were saved.
The total loss is estimated at 81, 100000
By the second fire the whole block on
he west side of Centre street, between
Leonard and Crosby, was laid in ruins,
! number of business firms and store.
,eepers rnd many families being burned
ut. The loss by this fire is estimated
t $500, 900. Two girls and two men were
pjured, one of the men perhaps fatally.
There was an "unconfirmed" runner
hat six girls had lost their lives.