The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-01-19
3IAN AND DENGOCRAT BLOOMsBURG COLUMBIA COUNTY. Pa

ed from train on the North Missouri
railroad, and was instantly killed.
Cash aud notes, amounting to $4,000,
were found on his body.
The Bank of North America, Phila.
delphia, has just been swindled to the
tune Of over twelve thousand dollars,
by means Of altered certificates.
Charles II. Perry, Ex Mayor of Brook
lyn, committed suicide recently by
shooting himself with revolver. Ill
health is thought to have been the
cause.
The Supreme Court of the United
States rendered q decision on Saturday
affirming the constitutionality of the
Legal Tender Acts. The Court stood
five to four Chief Justice Chase and
Justices Field, Clifford and n elson dis
sented
General II. w. Halleck died at his
residencei in Louisville, on the 9th inst,
of congestion ofthe brain. He was the
senior Major General of the army, and
besides his military reputation was IA
vorably known as an author of fair abil-
ity.
There are strong probabilities that di.
plomatic relations between this country
| and Russia may be suspended and the
| respective ministers of the two coun-
tries recalled. This state of affairs is
the result of the approval of Minister
| Catacazy's eourseby Prince Gortchakoff
| the Russian Prime Minister.
The Emperor of China is to be mar.
ried soon, and has imported II pair of
elephants to draw his nuptial car. His
bride is to be carried in n palanquin
| made of strings Of pearls. Her dresses
cost $i,0O0,000. The society journals
will not report the affair.
The Delaware and Lackawanna Rail.
way have been indicted by the Grand
Jury Of Paterson, New Jersey, for kill
ing fireman and an engineer by the
collision of trains, and also for obstruct.
ing the highways by allowing trains to
remain at road crossings.
a minister lecturing in East Boston
recently, suddenly remembered that he
| had agreed to marry a couple at that
| very time. He stopped his lecture for
| fifteen minutes, fulfilled his agreement,
married the happy couple, and return
ing finished his lecture.
The Louisiana Legislative muddle
still continues There are two Houses,
| neither of which has a quorum, and
| consequently no business can be traps
| acted. Additional troops have been
| ordered to New Orleans, and fears are
entertained of riot. Graut has OF
course done nothing in the matter as
was to have been expected.
a barrel of buckwheat -four exploded
recently at Keokuk, Iowa. A man OF
science calmly says that the bucllwheat
was probably wet, and being confined
in the barrel, an alcoholic vapor was
generated, which ignited as the lid was
taken Off and lighted candle brought
into contact.
The Grand Duke Alexis has abandon
ed his projected buffalo hunt in
| company with Piegan Phil and Spotted
Tail, and in obedience to the orders of
the Gar has repaired to st. Louis,
whence in company with Admiral Pos
siet he expects an immediate recall in
consequence of the disruption of our re-
latiOns with Russia.
A Norwegian, seventy years old, at
White Bear Lake, Michigan, had the
most extraordinary light with wolI
on record, last week. The animal
tackled him, and he fought, first with a
club, then with pitchfork, and finally
he got rope round the neck of the
beast, and Herewith drew him to a car
penter's vice, into which he screwed
his head. Then he got gun and kill
ed him.
David r. Dickey, of Randolph, Tip
ton county, Tennessee, came to an end
on Monday. He made bet that he
could eat four bottles of brandy peach
es, and drink all the liquor, together
with two tumblers of raw whiskey. He
drank the whiskey, and finishedall the
peuches dropping dead while holding
the last peach in his mouth.
A civil engineer of Chicago, who
believes that rain can be produced by
artificial methods, has petitioned Con-
gress to enable him to carry out his pro-
posed experiments. He wants to be
furnished with 900 cannon of not less
than "a pounds calibre each, and $1,000
pounds Of powder to fire in them, to-
gether with an electrical battery and
other appliances, to enable him to dis
charge all the pieces simultaneously.