The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-09-15

homeless by the fire atSl llyacinth, Canada
A young lady of Ptlston Is a student OF
law, aud will soon apply for admission TO the
bar
A bridge to cost 81, 100000, is to be thrown
across the Hudson river at poughkcepsie.
The work is to be commenced at once.
The total value of the Centennial build
ings and their contents is estimated at the
neat little sum of a hundred and four mil
lions.
A man in New London is said to have in
his possession u collection of "war envelopes"
embracing 400 designs.
Chicago will use oil instead of gas Cor
street illumination, unless the gas company
will reduce its price to $3.50.
King John, the reigning monarch of
Abyssinia, claims to be lneal decendaut of
the Queen of Shcba.
The Willamsport Gd,cEc says that there
are logs enrush in the Susquehanna boom
aud above it in the river TO make 10000 600
feet of lumber.
The coming cotton crop in the South is
estimated at from 4,250,000 to 100000
bales.
There are 53 persons in Jail awaiting trial,
and fair prospect Of six weeks criminal
Court.-POttSpiHe Standard
The first paper issued in Luzerno county
was published in Wilkes-B Barre in 1895, and
was called the Herald Of Tie Tines
A Colored woman has received the APP
pointment of postmistress at Terry, Miss, in
the place of Mr.. Seals, white Democrat,
removed.
Queen Victoria will be proclaimed "Em.
press of Inda," at Delhi, on the 1st of Jan.
uary next, before an imperial asscmblage o
all the Governors, Lieutenant Governors
heads of government, princes chiefs ant
mobiles.
Pennsylvania is to have her own particu
lar Centennial day at the Exposition on tn,
2sth, the anniversary of the signing of he
| first State Constitution.
Fevers have been engendered at Montrea
| by burning collins which were exhume,
| from an old burying-ground ut the new cana
basin. The bodies inferred in the coffin
were those who died in 1917 OF the shi
| fever
The Governor has issued warrants for th
execution, on October3lst, of the Mollie Ma
guire murderers, Thomas Munley, Jane
Carroll, James Boyle, Hugh Mcclellan an
James Roarty.
| The North Carolina Journal reports tina
in consequence of the scarcity of money
cows have become almost the medium O
exchange in that State, Il thin COW passn
for IS, one in good winter order for so, an
a fat one for l3.
| An interoceanic canal has been decide
upon through Nicaragua. Its estimated co,
is over S65, 900, 900, and its length 6l2 mile
The distance from ocean to ocean throug
Lake Nicaragua is 1902 miles.
Ground has been broken at Hartford for
new Catholic Cathedral of Gothic architet
ture, 254 feet long, with u spre 250 fe,
high, which will be when finished, one
the best Ornamented and most imposin
church buildings in New England
Not the least of the many embarrassin
features of the Republican campaign in Cor
necticut is the fact that the man who wrot
| THAR rlla farm, laSt Drofoclnr Spp,na 10
is out for Tilden this year.
Brigham Young is making an organize
missionary effort in Pennsylvania. Tw
apostles of Mormonism named Pratt an
Duncan are in Schuylkill county preachin
the faith.
The City Bank of Harrisburg closed i
doors last week. A notice posted on ii
door announced that the bank had made
voluntary assignment to Hon. Francis Jo
dan and George w. Porter for the benefit
: creditors, with hopes of paying in full"
Baltimore, Sept. 9.-At Republca
meeting last night a gang of roughs starte
a fight and broke up the meeting. Pisto
were used and three or four men shot.
l
prominent lawyer, the speaker of the eve
ing, was knocked down and badly injured
st. Albans, VT Sept. "a most startlir
and well founded statement comes from
Hyacinthe, the once prosperous and thrvil
village Of Canada, which was laid in ash
last Saturday by fire which sacrificed sc
eral lives and left thousands of people hom
less and in utter destitution. The author
ties investigating the origin of the contlagr
ton became convinced that it came fro
the torch of an incendiary. For the p'
five days they have had under arrest
Frenchman named Magloire Blanchette,
;. suspicion of being the guilty party, and t
: theories of the officers have at last prov
true.