The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-09-22
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
Savannah y terribly scourged by yellow
fever. h Nfth Ieh ff
The steamship Rebecca Clyde was wreck
ed. OF Pnmlico Sound, on Sunday aud twelve
lives were lost. t Li1
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Sitting Bull, with threc-mile column of
Indians has crossed the Missouri at thirty
miles below Fort Peck. General Terry is
in hot pursuit.
Hon. Galusha A. Grow has been named
for Congress again Ivy the Republicans of
Susquehanna county. ...
French oysters companies declare that in
y short time they will be able to supply
90,00O,0 900 oysters per aunum to the English
markets. ...
A council of the ministers aud great dig
nitaries of the Empire have proclaimed
Abdul Hamid, Satan, vice Murad, depo-
sed.
The Lapwing." Daniel Web1ter's pleas
lire yacht, Is still in cxi.,rucc. An old
man at Marshfed, named Doherty, owns
her, aud uses her for fishing and messing.
England has waged lorty.nine wars since
1900; France thirty-eight; Russia, twenty
two; Austria twelve; and Prussia eight.
The 2,6OOibreweries in the United States
produce yearly 5000, 500 gallons of malt
liquor. Most of them have been built with
in the last twenty five years.
Mrs. Lincoln, widow of President Abra-
ham Lincoln, is staying in Boulder, one of
| the most picturesque places in the Rocky
Mountains of Colorado
The New York State Agricultural Fair,
| in progress at Albany, although the bes. ex-
hibition of the kind ever given in that Sec
tion of the country, is Il financial failure.
The army OF Greece is tremendous thing
The cavalry branch of it is said to consist of
eleven men, nine horses and 'bus-not a
bluuderbuss, but an omnibus. When Greece
takes up gun Europe lies down behind a
log.
The trial of ex-Secretary Belknap on the
criminal indictment, for accepting money in
connection with the Fort Sill leadership,
| will not take place until December. In the
meantime Mr.. Beknap will remove to his
| former home in Iowa.
The first bank established in the United
States was the bank OF North America, of
| Philadelphia, which was started in 1872
the second the Bank of New York, Juue,
| 1884 the third the Massachusetts, Bank, of
Boston, which started one month later In the
same year. The three have kept accounts
| with each otLer ever since.
A company of antiquarians who have been
| studying the old stone mill at Newport, r.
| l., have decided that it was Masonic tenn
pie built by the Norsemen, and with the
symbolic seven pillars.
A curious chart has been placed on exhi,
bitiOn in the agricultural building of the
Philadelphia Exposition. 1t is 90 feet long
and % feet wide, and presents in unbroken
line the complete history of man, including
|
of Eden to the present.
| After four years of litigation the Court
in Wayne county, Pennsylvania, on Satur.
day decided that married women could hold
property separate from their husbands. The
suit arose through brother-in-law seizing
| the property of his deceased brothers wild
ow. The latter recovered the estate in dis.
pute.
The Fair of the Union Park and Agricul
tural Association, at Sunbury, will be held
on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Fri
day, October Sd, 4th, 5th and 9th. There is
every indication that it will be one of the
most successful that has yet been held by
the Association.
The heavy storm of Sunday did much ham.
age in Philadelphia Stores along the river
front were flooded and many houses were un-
rooted. Smith Island opposite the city was
completely submerged. Theferry boats ceased
running. Along the Jersey coast much
damage was done. especially at Cape May
where among other casualties Congress Hall
was unroofed. The storm extended along
the cost from New York to Florida Sew
eral lives were lost and innumerable vessels
wrecked along the coast.
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The magnitude and enthusiasm of Dem.
ocratic meetings, wherever held, are tho
best auguries Of success in November. II
Pennsylvania, wherever meetings have been
held, they have been remarkable on those
two points. They indicate that the people
are wide awake on the subject of admins
trative reform, and that they are determined
to avail themselves of the opportunity to b,
afforded them in November of getting rid o
a party, which has not only proven itself (
failure, but has involved the whole country
in its disastrous bankruptcy.
| In answer to the inquiries of an inter
viewer as to what he thought of Attorney
General Taft's late order turning over the
south to military law, Senator Bayard, o
Delaware, said: "No document so partisan
in character, so reckless of all constitutions
limitations upon power, so utterly insubor
dinate to the decisions of the Supreme Cour
of the United States, has in the history o.
our country issued from depar 'ment; not
only acting as all departments should act
un,ier the sanction Of law, but looked to b,
all other departments of the executive Il