The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-03-09
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Judge Moses, of the Supreme Court Of !,
'outh Carolina, is dead. 4
The will of the late Commodore Wander.
tilt Is to be contested by Cornelius j. Van
Ierbilt, Mrs. Allen and Mrs. La Bau, his :
children. Judge Black. VIM NJ Evars.
scott Lord and other prominent lawyers
" We been retained
II il estimated tha, there VA. been a. much
turing the pas thirty years ~ there i1 nnw
rlt altogether
From J Il 20 Dec 81 1876 eiglty-uine
millions NJ postal cards were sld in
hr post rfcps nf the United States. or A.
eeu millions more than ior the same period
NJ 1875 Postal cards werl introduced in
this cnuntry on,y four years ago.
People may say what they will about
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close, but Grant was at least elected, and
that no man can honestly say of his sue
cessor.
A policeman recently arrested Carlisle's
Chief Burgess Vert for fast driving, took
him before Chief Burgess Vert, who heard
the testimony. Chief Burgess Vert fined
Chief Burgess Vert and Chief Burgess Vert
paid his fine.
From Alphonso Taft's annual report is
CLEANED the interesting information that the
country has recently paid $3.50 for portrait
Of Laudsulet Williams, which is intended
to adorn the Department of Justice. A rare
legacy for the generations yet to come.
Under floor at the mint at Paris the
strange discovery has been made of 100 900
in twenty centime pieces bearing the dates
Of 1866 and 1867. No one seems to know
under what circumstances the sum was hid
d,n.
Birds are reported dying by the thousand
in New England, where the the great depth
and long continuance OF the snow prevent
their getting 'tthe seeds and grubs on which
they usually live. Many people, both city
and country, have large focks which they
feed daily, but the great mass are starving
to death.
Bread hereafter is to be sold in Reading
by the pound instead of by the loaf Those
failing to comply with the ordinance will be
fined $40. and those found using improper
or unwholesome material in preparing bread
will be fined $25.
Under the laws of Vermont there is no
way by which man unable to pay fine
for drunkenness can escape imp isonment
for life, except by the pard' n of the Execu-
tive Governor Fairbanks has just pardoned
one such victim, named Hobbs, who has
been in Jail tor long time at st. Johns
bury.
Birmingham, Conn the other Sunday dur
ing the opening service, and placing his
forefeet upon the chancel railings, COM
nenced to eat the 'greens" with which it
was trimmed, The incident did not fail to
make sensation, and even provok, smile
| from the rector. After some little trouble,
the goat was put out of doors.
DR. Elliott Cone says that many thou
sands of birds are annually killed by flying
against telegraph wires on the Western
plains. In days journey he saw over a
hundred bodies, mostly of larks, lying under
the wires. In one spot the number indicat.
cd that flock had Hown across the wire,
some of them striking it with fatal force.
The veteran Republican editor, Samuel
Bowles, became so disguised with the sick
ening revelations of the testimony taken be.
fore the house committee, that he wrote to
his paper, the Springfield Republican, tina,
all Republicans of any character or stand.
ing, in Washington, had ceased to defend
the Louisiana returning board. And yet
there is not a canting hypocrite who belong'
to that party who is not glad to accept the
fruit OF the returning boards villainy.
The suit against General Belknap, il
Washington, has been dismissed by order o
the Attorney General, in accordance will
the directions of the President. The reason
for the dismissal are the improbability of
conviction on the evidence and the long sui
fering of the accused and the great expens
to which he has already been subjected. A
it Is not likely he would have been convict
ed by Washington jury, the people hsv
not really lost much. Exit Belknap.
, ECLECTIC MAGAUNE.-The March mum
Der Of the Eclectic is on our table, and hs
for its frontispiece a fine steel-engraved por
trait Of William Dean Howells, the popu
t lar essayist, novelist, and editor of tn
Atlantic Monthly. Every important depar
ment of literature is represented by one G
more articles in the table of contents, whic
Q begins with rambling and gossipy but rea
r ly instructive paper, on Eyes and Eye
glasses" by r. II. Horne. This is tollowe
. by "The Ascent of Man." spirited prote