The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-10-25
NEWS

tionists and 46. Opposition.
The returns are all In but those from
Delaware and Pike counties. Accepting
the previous reports from these counties,
Hendricks will have majority of over
1900
Official returns of the Ohio State Elec-
tion show the following Republican
majorities on the State ticket: For
Secretary of State, Allen Wickoff, 15,O55;
Supreme Judge, John Welch, 10,1S9
Board of PL5lic Works, II. d. Porter,
16,455. The total vote for Secretary of
State was 0,037, the largest ever cast
in Ohio. The new Congressional dele.
CATION stands 13 Republicans to DEM
ocrats.
The Patent Office has made an inn |
portant.decision The Examiner of
Trade. marks having decided against
certain trademarks of manufactures
and vender of flour in st. Louis, in
| which the names of the manufactures
were embraced in the well known Ma
sonic emblems Of the square and com.
pass, an appeal was made against the
| Examiners decision. j. M. Thatcher,
acting Commissioner, has sustai ned the
decision, giving his reasons why such
combinations of Masonic forms are cal
cuated to defeat the fundamental object
| of the Trademarks law.
The horse disease, now raging at Roches
ter, has assumed alarming proper
tions. Fully onc.half of the horses in
the city are affected by it. The livery
stables have stopped business the rail.
way ompany-having 100 horses sick
have taken off some of their cars, and it
is said that in O'Brien's circus, which
came lately from Canada, every horse is
laid down by the disease.
| Advices from Omaha tell Of paririe
fires raging in Nebraska, destroying the
country almost entirely within circuit
of thirty miles from the city. A prairie
fire started two miles north of it on Sun
day, causing much destruction of build
ings, fences, sheds, &c. lat the race track.
The soldiers were out all Sunday night
and yesterday fighting the flames to save
the barracks, and have so far succeeded
in their efforts.
The scarcity ofcoal in England is be.
coming more serious than ever. Owing
to the difficulty of obtaining miners in
Belgium the mining companies of that
country are not able to execute their
English orders, and the result is a
scarcity which has again adva need the
price of coal in England.
The Central Committee of the NUM-
cipal Reform Association of Philadel-
\ phia are busily at work in ferreting out
the wholesale frauds of the late election.
They have already, upon the testimony
of election officers, ELECTED facts Of so
astounding a nature as to be in posses
sion ofsufficient evidence to legally set
aside the Grant-Hartranft candidates.
Another outrage has been committed
upon King Amadeus of Spain. While
walking in the Plaza del Oriente two
men, who had concealed themselves be-
hind statues, threw large stones at him,
shouting at the time, "Viva la republi-
ca" The King was not hurt, but the
event causes the greatest excitement in
Madrid. The scoundrels were pursued
by the police, but managed to escape.
At Lancaster, Pa, Captain McMelen,
Select Councilman and member of the
Republican Country Committee, and
John Wittlinger, a prominent broker,
have been arrested and held each in
$500 bail on the charge ofissuing fraud
ulent naturalization papers. McMelen
made strong effort to have the charge
against him withdrawn, but the Mayor
refused.
| Boyd Henderson, Pennsylvania,
who arrived in Havana on the 11th
inst, was arrested at his hotel on the
evening of the 18th, on suspicion of be-
ing in league with the insurgents. He
has since been released. He is cores
pondent of the New York Herald.
The Canadian horse disease has reach
ed Buffalo, where it is prevailing to an
alarming extent"
| A despatch from Wheeling, w. ",
states that, owing to the doubts of some
regarding the election for Congressm en-
last August, the Supervisors of that
county have ordered the polls to be
opened on "the oath of October next"
for those "who see fit to vote again."
i The wife of Horace Greeley is lying
at the point of death. Mr.. Greeley is
therefore compelled to decline invita-.
lions to visit various parts of the coun.
try.
Hon. j. M. Morrill, has been re elect
; ed United States Senator by the Legis
lature of Vermont. He received 2ll
votes to III.
John V. Greeley Republican Con.
gressmen frorn the I'd Philadelphia dis
trict, who is charged with swindling
has sbscouded.
The renowned historian of the Re
formation, Rev. Henry Merle d'Aubignt
died suddenly on Monday at Geneva
) in Switzerland.
a large number of the most inlluen.
q tial business men of Pittsburgh hav'
4 united in a petition to Secretary Bout
. well asking for the reissue of $i4, 600, 00t
D of greenbacks retired by Secretary Nc
Culloch, as measure of relief from thu
present monetary stringency.
The annual report of the postmastel
t general is being rapidly completed, ,ant
8 will renew the recommendation for
If national telegraph system throughou
h the United States.
e The dreaded horse disease has mad
n its appearance in New York city ant
If hundreds of horses are attacked. /
n threatens to interfere seriously with tb
). trade OF the city.
J. AT York, Pa, last March after til
l. appointment of the re auditing commit
> tee of the Legislature, all the voucher
were stolen from the Court HOusa Th