The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-09-08
GENERAL MEMS.

fought prize fight in New Jersey last week,
and Walker died from tho effects of his
pummelling. y
The trial of Allen @. Laros at Easton last |
week for poisoning several members Of his
family by putting arsenic in the coffee re-
degree.
William l.. lIirst, an eminent lawyer of
Philadelphia, died last week, Thursday at
Bedford Springs. He was well known and
universally respected. ."
Mr.. Disraeli, the English Premier has
been raised to the rcepge under the title of
the Earl of Beacons field
1t is proposed to erect bronze monument
in the public square in Wilkes Barre to the
memory of the late Judge Conyngham.
Eugenic, ex- Empress of France, has pur-
chased II villa in Rome and will make that
place her permanent residence.
The total admissions at the Centennial up
to Wednesday were 3.775,S7 and the total
cash receipts 81. .93S. .Gj650.
A lot OF negroes killed man in Georgia
last week, and were arrested and imprisoned
for it. Send down few regiments of SOL
diers to protect the coored people
Barnum shows at Williamsport on the
14th.
Hon. L. l.. Merrimau, candidate for Con-
gress in Luzerne county, died ON Sunday
morning last.
A good quality of anthracite coal has been
discovered 10 feet below the surface of the
ground, near Sherman, Texas.
The widow of Daniel Webster is still
living, at the age of S5, with relative near
New York city.
The workingmen of New York have nom-
mated James Gordon Bennet, Jr of the
} Herald, as their candidate ior Mayor.
No wonder soldiers are sent to the South
The negroes are deserting the Republican
ranks by hundreds. In one Democratic
! procession in Mississippi there were over 52j
colored persons.
The Republican State Convention in Col
orado has passed resolution demanding the
t, protection of the National Government
against the grasshoppers
Official returns made to the bureau O
statistics show, that during the year ending
June 80, there arrived in the United State
22,572 Chinese emigrants, of whom only 25'
, of G,135 over 1875.
An effort is being made to divide Califor
Q mia into two States, on the line of Santi
: Cruz county, giving fourteen counties in tn
n South for the new State, with thirty thou
IL sand voters and hundred millions taxabl
property.
!, The Philadelphia & Reading r. II. Co
u has reduced the wages of all officers AM
II employees from 10 to 80 per cent.
A bronze Statue of Wm III. Seward ha
- been placed in position in Madison Square
n New York. 1t will be formally unveile
N next month. The entire height is twent
;, feet, and the cost $4,000.
Ie About 800 stone masons have been en-
N gagged to go from New York to Greenocl
a Scotland. This is something new, workme
4. going from this county to Europe.
Prince Frederick Charles, of German,
st has accepted the presidency of the Germa
Sc section of the exhibition of 1878, and th
e. Prince of Wales that of the English section
d. Salt Lake City, Utah, September 8. I'll
ID property of Brigham Young has been a
le tached to satisfy judgment for $4,000
IL alimony due Ann Eliza Young.
. Jacob Stauffer, undertaken, residing b
e. tween Shepherdstown and Merchandising
&c Cumberland county, wife and five childre
III were poisoned on Tuesday morning last vii
NC arsenic. They are in a very critical cond
ne ton. This is the second time in sho
III time that poison has been unconscious
IL partaken of by the family. Suspicion poin
eli to a certain individual in Cumberland coun
''e as at the bottom of this poisoning.
> ST. Hyacinthe, Quebec, September 8.
destructive fire broke out here this afterno,
go and spread rapidly. In about two hours t
~ entire business part of the town was destro
n ed. Six hundred houses were burned.
be. Pennsylvania has spent 100000 for ST
by diers' orphans since the war;
tor 124 out of 500 clerks, or nearly one-six
ch employed in the War Department at Was
vii ington were discharged last Saturday.
mt. course nearly, if not quite all were femal
to and among them some of the most deservl
- in the employ of the Government.