The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-02-02
NEWS.

| Snow fell in Savannah Ga. on Thurs.
day of last week for the first time in
thirteen years.
Mrs. Fanny Hyde shot and killed
George w. Watson in Brooklyn N. Y.
on Friday last for insulting her.
Geo. Bolts, the murderer OF Genl.
'Pet" Halstead was hanged in Ne wark
N. j. on Friday last.
Travel on the Pacific r. r.. is suspend.
ed for the time owing to the immense
snow drifts, which accumulate as fast
as removed.
The steamer America was destroyed
by fire on the 22nd of December last,
whilst on her way to Montevideo and
eighty-seven passengers were burned
to death.
Prof Paaormo peacable citizen of
Brooklyn was brutally murdered in
that city on Tuesday last by two un-
known ruf'ians, for purposes Of robbery.
The Mayor offers reward Of $500 for
the arrest Of the murderers.
The Supreme Court of the United
States have decided, that the President
has full power to grant a pardon or
amnesty, and that the acceptance there
of cannot be made Of no effect by Con-
gressional legislation.
A colored member Of the South Caro-.
lima Legislature, named Byas was shot
by Benz. w. Tomlinson corre5pon.
dent Of the Charleston, NeUS in Colum-
bia S. c.. on Thursday of last week
Byas attempted to cowhide Tomlinson
who thereupon shot him. Tho wound
is considered mortal.
Genl. r. s. Ewell one of the ablest of
the Confederate generals in the late war
died on Thursday last at his residence
in Tennessee. He gave special instruc-
tions that no word should be put on his
tombstone rejecting upon the United
States.
Tho State Editorial Convention, met
at Harrisburg, on Thursday of last
week, about fifty editors being present.
| The Libel law and rates for public ad-
| vertising were discussed. A resolution
was adopted approving the bill now
pending before the Legislator enacting
| that public advertisements shall be
published in two papers, one of each
political party, having the largest cir
culation in hecounty The Association
in a body attended the Governors
reception in the evening.
THERE are one hundred miles of ice
on the eHudsonriver averaging ten inches
in thickness.
THE Sheriff broke up baptis !. ~ he
banks of the Ohio, at Cairo, sayi that
the water was too cold, and that if the
minister persisted he would prosecute
him for murder.
There is an incendiary panic at Pat
erson, N. j, Twenty-Five attempts to
set fire have recently been made. Extra
watchmen have been appointed, and
the Mayor has offered a reward for the
detection of offenders.
A despatch from Nice, Italy, reports a
terrible railroad accident at that city.
While train was crossing bridge over
Paglione river the structure gave way
and the cars were precipitated into the
water. Fourteen persons were killed
and wounded.
The Republican State Central Com.
mittee met at Harrisburg and passed
resolutions directing the chairman to
issue call fixing Wednesday, April 10
as the day and Harrisburg as the place
Tor holding the next convention ofparty.
In the celebrated Story Oil Farm case
thejury found for the plaintiff, Story,
in s3l, O95,against Hickey & Co., the
purchasers in 1864. Judge M'Kennan,
OF the United States circuit court, how
ever, Indignantly set the verdict aside,
a against his charge and the evidence,
and ordered new trial.
From Chicago comes the statement
that it is reported that the small pox
is raging fearfully at Thayer, Iowa.
The population is less than one theus
and. Almost every person in the town
is stricken down with the disease No
trains are allowed to stop there.
The Pope's advisers are urging HI 70 to
leave Rome and establish the Holy See
elsewhere.
AT League station, on the Mississippi
Central Railroad, few nights since,
three OF the laborers, being paid o fl,
INDUCED in gambling, and one of them,
named Sperry, lost his money to the
other two. The loser became so enraged