The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-10-15
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Robert Dale Owen has so lar recovered |
his health and mind that hc proposes t1 !
spend the winter at the home of hi. sou |
Ernest in Marquette. !
The Centennial building are tay' coming.
on apace. Three thousand men are now |
employed at the ground
1t was epizooty thai allru American Girl. /
She was driven before 81 had fairy r"cuv- !
cred, and her lungs congcsted
Rev. G. E. Cheney has been clec,,d Bsh- |
op of Chicago, by the Synod of TIC 2l:orm-
ed Episcopal Church.
The whirligig of time brings its revenges
and Theodore Tilton is drawn as Juror in
the Brooklyn city court
Ten thousand dollars was the verdict for
the plaintiff on Wednesday of last week in
Reading in the seduction case of Mishler
VS.. McManus
The hogs in Central Ohio are suffering
with an unknown disease, and are diving rap.
idly,
Copper has been discovered on the farm
OF Matthias Kaupp, in Wolf township, Ly-
coming county. The ore is said to exist in
large quantities about six feet below the sur
face. ltyelds above sixty-five per cent
Delano is the tenth member of the Cabinet
who has resigned since Grant became Presi
dent. There has been less fxity of tenure
In the Cabinet Departments than has charac-
terlzed any previous Administration.
In the United States district court at Bal
timore it has been decided that rent owinp
bankrupt is a preferred claim, and a dis
tress warrant issued after the marshal came
into possession of the bankrupts effects was
allowed.
Henry Hooper theological student of
Milford, Pa, whilst travelling with Bishop
Howe, was suddenly seized with hemorrhage
of the lungs, and died in a few minutes at
the Erie Erie Railway Depot, in Jersey City, on
the Goth ult.
On Monday evening of last week an oil
lamp exploded in the house of Edward Ton
py, in Shamokin, which set fire to the cloth
ing OF Mrs. Toppy, and before assistance
came TO her she was severely burnt that it
caused her death during the night.
The flag ship of Commodore Perry. the
Lawrence, sunk in Erie harbor sixty-two
years ago, was raised September 18th, and
the bottom found to be in good state of
preservation. 1t is intended to exhibit the
vessel at the Centennial.
Rev. DR.. McLaren, the Bishop elect of
llllhois, within four years has leaped from
Presbyterian pulpit into an Episcopalian
Bishopric. This is a feat never before
equalled by any clergyman in this country.
The town of Indianola Texas, was almost
entirely destroyed by the recent storm on the
Gulf coast The lighthouses, wharyes and
nearly every house was swept away, and
over one-hundred and fifty lives lost.
Daniel Dougherty, Esq, the famous Phil |
adelphia lawyer, whose brilliant lectures last |
season were among the most pleasing events,
gets u 200 for weeks visit to the West.
The New LAW DEPARTMENT AT Ia
FAYErrE COLLEGE LAST WEEK.-The in
augural address was delivered in Pardee
Hall by Hon. w S. Kirkpatrick, Dean of !
the department. The Faculty consists of
aole men of wide reputation, and long expe
rience in the theory and practice of law.
Carruth the ex-editor, late of Vineland I
New jersey, is failing in health from the !
effects of the wound inflicted on him, and
1t is feared he will not live long. The story
OF settlement between the injured man and |
his assailant is pronounced without fun
dation. Should Carruth die, Lands would
in all probability, be tried for his murder,
Miss Josie Marshall Jewell eldest daugb- |
ter OF Postmaster General Jewell was married !
at Hartford on Wednesday to Mr.. Arthur
Murray Dodge the youngest son of Hon. w. |
=. Dodge, of New York city. There was
distinguished company and the usual fash
ionable ado.
The second Protestant Episcopal church
congress will be held in PHILADELPHIA on the
9th 10th, llth and 18th of November. and |
will be presided over by Rt Rev. William
Bacon Stevens, bishop of the diocese of
Pennsylvania. There will be a large repre- |
sentaton Of clerical and lay delegates, the |
former including the bishops of all the do |
ceses throughout the country During the |
sessions there will be discussed number of |
theological subjects looking toward the per- |
fection Of the church work, Papers viii be |
read and the debates will be maintained by |
the members present.
The Alexandria (Va), Gazette says that |
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee has received n letter
from the Khedive ofEgypt inv which his high |
ness, after paying Mr.. Lee high personal |
tribute, says that he is desirous of forming a |
"body guard, )" and that he wishes as such. |
veteran soldiers, and also that they shall be-
the picked men out of the whole American
cavalry in the civil war; and that ifthe Gen
eral thinks the Black Horse Cavalry could
be organized to write to that effect. The
Gazette adds that such reorganization is
impracticable, the members ofthe late Black
Horse being scattered over the globe.
VIM. NJ. Tweed pays $50 per week for
his accommodations in Ludlow Street Jail
lie sees nobody but his family his physician
and his lawyers. 1t is customary at the Jail
when, for convenience, a prisoner wishes to
be out in the open air air for few hours in
of AN officer, to grant him that
for fee not fixed, but assessed ac-
cording to the amount of the bail, in default
of which he is held, kind of discountng of
the risk involved. Mr.. Tweeds bail is fix
ed at SO, ,000, 600, and halfa days liberty in
his case would be scheduled at about 500.
He has only avaled himself of this license
once, however, when he went home for two :
or three hours, but did not pay for the pri- !
plege
LIABILITY FOR FRIGHTENING A HORSE t
BY WHIsTLING.- In the case of the Phil d
ldelphia, Wilmington * Baltimore Railroad u
company, against Stnger, appeal from the &
County District Court, which RI
vas a case where the defendant in error was o
irving a horse, known to be afraid of loco n
motives, along road parallel aRd near TO 81
he track, and the engineer ofan approaching
rain sounded the whistle, causing the horse a.
o run away and throw the man to the ground,
njuring him, for which injury he brought dl
uit to recover damages, the Supreme Court
If Pennsylvania held: /. That the question
whether the use of the whistle in that case
vas negligent was for the jury to decide, but
lot whether any use of the whistle was neg +,
igent, 2. That the use of a horse known I
0 be afraid of locomotives in the vicinity of Il
railroad was contrbutory negligence, The
Judgment of the lower Court, giving dana. a.
%, was reversed and new trial ordered, Z,
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