The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-03-15
NEWS

THE York (Pa) Republican contain s
an account cf a robbery from the Coun-
lty Commissioners and Treasu rer's
Office of the county vouchers of the past
six years. The Legislature was recent
ly petitioned to appoint committee to
audit and examine the accounts of the
county, and a bill to that effect was
passed by the Senate. On Tuesday last
it was discovered that desk in the
Commissioners Office had been broken
| open, and the "stubs" from q blank
book torn out. On Wednesday, on the
| Clerk of the Commissioners being cal.
led upon for certain voucher, he found
| the whole of the vouchers since 1865
had been stolen. A meeting of citizens
was held the following day, when a
resolution was passed justifying the
Commissioners in Offering a reward of
$1,000 for the detection of the robbers.
The vice. president of the Erie road,
Mr.. Archer, and number of the other
directors of the company, obtained
possession of the Office of the company
on Monday and proceeded to elect Gen
eral John A. Dix president, and George
| b. Mcclellan and number of promi-
nent capitalists of various shades of
political opinion as directors. Messrs.
Shearman & Field were dismissed from
the position of counsel; Mr.. Bari ow
was elected counsel. The auditor and
| general superintendent Of the Erie road
| recognize the new directors. Jay Gould
| ofcourse protests, and threatens to fight
the matter out to the last.
A gigantic monopoly has just come to
light under the name of the Southern
Improvement Company" which pro-
poses to control the entire petroleum
trade of the State. Vigorous measures
| have been taken to resist this gigantic
swindle, and to ensure the transp porta-
| ton of oil over other routes Immence
meetings have been held in Titusville
to perfect measures to that end.
The Unionville, s. c., Times reports
that arrests for Ku-Kluxism were
recommended in Union county, S. c.,
last week, and says that the county had
been quiet for many months. The ar
| rests have caused suspension of all
business and the abandonment of many
plantations, the owners being unwilling
to risk the planting ofa crop in the pre-
vailing uncertainty.
A terrible murder, committed under
peculiar circumstances, is reported from
Dayton. A German farmer, evidently
a fanatic on some point of religion, read
| the Bible, accused his wife of witchcraft,
co operated with her in numbering their
children, then joined with her in prayer,
and finally strangled her to secure her
going to heaven.
Collector Arthur of the New York
Custom House has issued an order
dividing the General Order business
into disticts, and effeetually depriving
| Messrs. Leet, Stocking & Co. of the
profitable monopoly which they have
so long enjoyed at the expense of the
commerce of the port.
San Francisco advices state that Will
liam McGarrahan has commenced a
new suit in the Third District Court
against the New Idria Quicksilver
Mining Company claiming the Panoche
Garnde grants, the mine, and So, 1000, 900
damages.
A horrible trunk mystery has turned
up at Wheeling, West Virginia. BY the
accidental breaking of box at the
railroad depot mutilated human body
was disclosed.
The Republican carried New Hamp.
shire on Thursday by about 1900. The
Legislatures largely Republican, which
gives them an United States Senator.