The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-05-31

The COLUMBIAN.
Frtday, May ST. 1872
FRANK COOLEY,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.
Railroad Time Table.
LACKAwANNA q BLooMsBURG II. II.
North. South.
Noll......,,.,............ 1851 A, NJ. els P, N.
FSTres AFSri ,o".'o... 6:2S +. NJ. S$ A. NJ
cArAwIssA II. r. FROM RUPERT STATION.
Going North. Going soWgth'
i:Oo II M, ll'li "a W.
LOCAL.
THE next Exhibition of the Penn
.yvania state Agricultural Society |
will be held at Eric, on the 18th of |
September, lasting four days.
-
CANDIDATES for Office are unusually |
smiling and serene to those they meet,
and morbidly anxious about the health |
ortho voter and his family.
GRAPE vines have suffered greatly |
from tho length and severity of the past |
winter, and many of them in this vicin-
,,-in hax,n IN ho ~ Iopxy |
fruit trees have been killed in this town.
THE Butler Herald reports a severe |
frost on the 18th, sufficiently so to in
lure the buds of plum and peach trees.
This is certainly pretty late visit of |
the icy Jack"
WE were visited on Monday last by |
heavy shower and during its continue
ancc hail stones of goodly size fell for
few moments. No damage was done to |
buds as far as we have learned.
on Sunday, the 10Th inst, Rev. j. p.
Tu5tn baptized in the Fishingcreek
two young ladies, and on last Sunday |
the same solemn ceremony was per
formed on Mrs. Aaron Smith.
WILKES BARRE is to have two new
lnks-the "People's Bank" of which
Walter G.. Sterling and r. j. Flick are
the leading spirits, and the "Germania
Bank" of which Lewis Landmesser
\ i, one of the prime movers.
|. IuE Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
4 has Just decided that "the use by citi.
zen Of public ways is that of transit
mIr--loungers who occupy the public
highway are distractions of the public
right Of way, and nuiSances."
THE Democracy of Lancaster county
have elected John r. MacGonigle and
James Duffy as delegates to the Reading
Convention, with instructions 20 vote
FLOR c. II. Buckalew, "first, last, and all
the time"
WEpublish this week theabie though
lengthy address of Capt. w. McC!elland
before the Pa. Reserve Association at
Wilkes Barre. 1t gives evidence of
much labor and thought in It's produc.
ton, and marks its author a. man of |
Unusual ability.
. Tue Lowisburg Chronicle says that |
kWilliamspOrt is four miir5 long, and |
about as wide as a piece Of hemlock |
Sab. II contains some 10000 inhabi-
Gnts, about half as many mortgages, a
handsome permanent debt, and an ed-
Etw who tries to talk littla Dutch.
~.
TIE through morning train on the |
l.. & B. II. r. ran off tho track near
Plymouth on Tuesday last, the switch
H being misplaced. No one was injured |
but the engine, fine new one, was
Mllydamaged and turned upside down.
THE bridge over the canal near the
river bridge at Ca tawissa was carried !
away on Tuesday morning by boat,
All the woodwork was knocked into
the stream. The unusually high water
II IL Al4C NNlldl W 40 AIlc N.-u0t vi lllt az
cidGnt. Repairs viii be made imme-
d2tcly.
SOME thirty feet Of The roof Of the
bridge over Catawssa creek, at the Pa.
n IcrMill, was blown off during the storm
Of Monday last. A new frame build
ing on Main Street, in Catawissa, was
/ twisted out of all shape by the same
Storm. The carpenters, however, think
hebuilding can be restored to its form
/ Tuprightness without taking it down.
Coz" LEVI l.. TATE, of the Williams
/ port Sun, the man who once edited
i a paper in Berwick, and losing his
4 vile, published "that he had been left
With seven small children and one at
the breast" is in favor of Gen. Cass
Tor Govemor.-Berioich Ildepent.
WE have received the first number of
me Science Of Health, new monthly,
1.'o'ed to health oA Hygienic prlnci-
Pies. 1t is filled with short, well writ
eA articles on health and general sub
Jyy's, and illustrated with numerous
.as Its price, 50 per year, will place
II within reach of all. Published by
samuel II. Wells, $50 Broadway, New
York.
DNOWNED.-A young man was drown
,uoh Sunday morning near Lees ferry.
ue was hired hand on canal boat.
Inc captain called him up at o'clock
l" wash Off the deck. Later in the
morning, when the captain came