The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-28


If Grant were only musical, with what
e1npressement he could sing the "Still SC
gently round me stealngl'-N T. lrortd
"A salmon weighing thirty pounds was
lately caught in an irrigating ditch on a Cal
ifornia plain, five miles from his native river
"A grocer in Lincoln, England died
recently from the effect off wound inflicted
by bantam cock, who spurred him on the
thumb
Punch" understands fashionable cx
trcmos" to mean high heels and low fore
heads, but he neglects to say that these ex'
tremes never meet.
In the court house at Sunbury may be
found a desk and eagle quill which dates
back to 1772, So say the grand jury in
their official report.
The Altoona opera house has been en-
gagged for twenty.one consecutive nights for
revival purposes. Rev. L. p. Hammond
will conduct the exercises.
An individual in Reading admits that
he has been fool for fourteen years, having
wound up an eight-day clock regularly every
day for that period of time.
The Boston liquor shops have decreas-
cd seven hundred under the license law, and
there has been Il decrease of twenty per
cent. in the number of arrests for drunken
ness.
New instruments for instantaneous
siaughtering of cattle have been tried at the
Bradford, Yorkshire, abattoir with success
They were lent TO the Royal Society for the
prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
"A lawsuit has been in progress in Sal
ina, Kan, for six years. 1t is the case of
James Garvin vs.. w. d. Jenncrson. The re
have been three trials, and it finally close d
last week, with.a verdict for the defendant
torS27.
"A Gold fish saved Vermont hotel from
burning the other day. A lamp exploded
and set fire to the table, the heat cracked
the globe occupied by the goldfish, the wa
ter put out the fire and cooked the fish.
Hon. Hester Clymer, member of con-
gress, of Pennsylvania, has been designated
chairman of the national Democratic cam
paign committee. The announcement of
the full committee will be made in few
days.
The mayor of New York has received
an envelope containing $500, and a note
saying "rhis money belongs to the city''
Can it be that it is a remittance from Tweed
to be applied on his account? If it is, then he
only owes $5,99O,7OO.
A sad drowning accident is reported on
the Hudson river. A Mr., Briggs of Cox
sackie, My, his wife and two children were
crossing the Hudson river, he pushing
hand sled on which the mother and two
children were seated when all disappeared
through the ice. The bodies have not been
heard of since.
"A women aged forty years, named Will
was arrested in Buffalo, New
York, on the 2Sth ult., charged with murder
ing her stcpson, aged fourteen. He has
been missing since the I'd. The body wa.
found in an old well, on the premises, in
nude state, except a shirt A chair and
other weights were attached to his neck. |
Property belonging to him and reverting to
her own child in case of his death is the,sup-
posed cause.
The New York Hipprodrome, whittier
Moody and Sankey now go, will be divided
into three compartments, one with seats for
5000 one for 4,5OQ persons, with an inter-
mediate room forty feet wide for Mr.. Moody.
The building will be heated by fourteen
furnaces, there will be eight hundred singers
six hundred ushcrs and six hundred Chris
.ian workers in attendance. The work will
begin February l. !
Shenandoah claims to have the cham
piOn hunter. After visiting the woods reg
llar every day for two seasons, he has at
ength captured rabbit. The Herald says:
so sum up the amount ofdamages connect
ed with getting this rabbit, would puzzle
disciple of Euclid. Among the
most important are the keeping Of seven
logs for two years, three suits of clothes, four
-cen pounds of shot and power,S30 doctors
bills, TO say nothing of number of incl
dental Inconvenience"
-Fredricl c. Miller, former sheriff of
Ccariicld county, left his home on the
morning of the Both of November last for
Indiana, Pa, and no traces of him has since
been found. Mr. Miller had but one arm
,tho left arm being Off near the shoulder;
was of round, plump form; about five feet
nine inches in height, and weighs about one
hundred and ninety pounds; full and rather
healthy looking smooth face, and wore a
wig of light chestnut color. 1t is possible
his mind was temporarily disturbed