The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-03-24
News Items.

The 100 centennial passenger cars or
dered to be constructed at the Altoona rail-
road shops are almost completed
--"Science," says Dr. Holmes, "is a good
piece of furniture to have in an upper cham
Der, provided he has common sense on the
ground floor"
Mr.. Edwin Booth has been offered twen-
ty thousand dollars in gold for twenty per-
lormances in San Francisco.
-Scannel, the brutal murderer who was
acquitted recently on the ground of insanity,
is not insane after all. He has just been re-
leased from lunatic asylum.
The House committee on appropriations
has reported adversely to an additional ap-
preparation of sj00,OO0 for the government
display at the Centennial.
Eight inches of snow fell in the vicinity
of Chattanooga and Memphis, Tenn, on
Sunday night This was the heaviest fall
for many years.
Fred Lauer, the Reading brewer, has
| $4,000 worth of lager beer stored in his
vaults for next summers use.
--Luaerne county furnished 100000
cigars during the year 1875.
A man named Cambcl of Sullivan
county, who is eghty-two years old. has mar
ried a women of fory-eight.
A Crawford county judge has decided
that witness is not obliged to attend court
unless his mileage fee and allowance for
one days attendance be paid or allowed
him.
| The relics of the Moody and Sankey
meeting in Philadelphia.were auctioned off.
Most of the bidders were gentlemen who
had been prominent in the meeting. The
towels used by the revivalists brought So
apiece. and other articles in proportion.
The First National Bank of Duluth has
failed. Where oh, where is Proctor Knott ?
Can the center of the universe be thus con-
vulsed withouta word from him?
The Cincinnati Enquirer heads its New
Hampshire dispatches thus "Belknap may
plant and Grant may water but God only
knows where the increase comes from"
Senator Morton, having observed that 'the
Democratic party have no capital but scan
dial and they live on garbage" wicked
New England newspaper inquiries "Where
do they get the garbage, Seuator?"
Ex-senator Nyes family are said to be
in destitute circumstances. He is still in
the Flatbush Asylum, while his son and
daughter are seeking employment in the de-
partments at Washington.
1t is now stated that Governor Ames, of
Mississippi, will make no appointment to
fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Lieutenant Governor Davis, as such an ap-
pontment "would raise complicated legal
questions and cause trouble" The trial of
Superintendent. of Education Cardozo will
not take place until after the trial of Ames
The New York Erening Post, in speak
ing of the recent meat shower in Kentucky,
gives the following as a sample Of the wealth
er predictions in the future: "For New
England, the Middle States and Lower Lake
region, falling barometer increasing cloudi-
ness, with beef steals changing to mutton
chops in the northern part of these regions
during the night"
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