The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-12-15
BIAN DEMOCRAT, OOMsBURG, COLUMBIA COT NTY PA.
NEWS ITEMS.

The FIRST run of shad' has made its ap-
pearal ce down South. This is fully three
weeks earlier than ever known before.
A. Loudon Snowden, chief coiner at the
mint, has been appointed postmaster at
Philadelphia.
Hon. George A. Trenholm, ,ex. Confederate
Secretary of the Treasury, and a prominent
merchant of Charleston, S. G., died in that
city on Sunday, aged 20 years.
According to authentic statistics the
grasshorpers in 1875 set back Minnesota TO
the following extent: Number of bushels
of wheat destroyed, 2,02l,9G2 oats, 1.127,-
7S0 con, 700. .9Sl, and potatoes, 130,SS6.
The remains of balloon have recently
been found on the coast Of Ireland. In the
car were human bones--an incomplete skel-
tton-and a leather travelling bag, contain
ing papers so mouldy as not to be deci-
phered.
At Petrolia, Pa, Sunday afternoon,a wag-
on load Of nitro glycerine--abou GOO pounds
exploded, tearing wagon and horses to
"shreds," and killing two men named Smith
and Humphreys, who were unloading the
wagon.
An idiot lad living with the family of a
butcher at Gorham, Me-, was left in charge
of an infant few days ago, and, initiating
what he had seen done in the slaughter house
he killed the child, skinned the body, and
cut and hung it up.
An incendiary fire in Burlington, N. j.,
early Sunday morning, destroyed about
twenty-six buildings causing a loss of 500,
600 More than fifty families are homeless.
lady named Rogers MAS frightened to
death by the fire.
John p. Briscoe, Chancery Clerk of Clai-
borne county, Miss. "A prominent Democrat,
was assassinated last Saturday, while hunt
ing near Port Gibson. lie waa the sole wit
ness agains. the negroes who fired on the
Sheriff. posse on October 2lst.
The cold weather of Sunday last was gen.
eral throughout the country and the mercury
ranged rom 42' below zero in Dakota to
zero in Illinois. In Alabama the thermome-
ter indicated the freezing point.
The number Of bodies recovered from the
rains of the Brooklyn thca,er is 29S. 1t is
thought that others yet remain. On Sun
day 1903 bodies were buried in "A common
grave and 80 private funerals took place the
same day. The city WAS daped in mourn
ing and an immense crowd witnessed the
funerals.
Rev. Thomas P. Hunt, better known as
Father iluut," the temperai &C lecturer is
dead. His age was 81.
The remains of Baron de Palm were sue
cessful "cremated" in DIR. Lemoyne's "cre-
matory" at Washington, Pa last week. In
two hours and twenty minutes the body was
reduced to ashes which were placed in an
urn and carried away.
Captain Anfrye, Delegate French Com
missioner to the Centennial was arrested last
week for the alleged sander of one Smith
Centennial guard. Judge Thayer promptly
quashed the writ as Capt. Anfrye was en-
titled to immunity from arrest in civil suits
by virtue of his diplomatic position. Some
trouble is likely to grow out Of the affair.
The rumored lynching OF negroes by a
gang of Georgians, in South Carolina, turns
out to he unfouDded. The prisoners, thirteen
in number, were taken to Anderson, and
subsequently, removed to Walhalla, in Oco-
nee county, as a measure of precaution. 1t
is charged that they were concerned in Il
plot for an indiscriminate murder of the
whites, and there is great popular excite
ment in consequence. One of them conf
mi:ted suicide by taking laudanum.