The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1880-12-24
TIL E COLU N BlAN.
eLooMsBURG, FRIDAY. DECEMBER "a, 1880
Merry, Merry Christmas.

A Merry, Merry Christmas.
Tuesday was the shortest day Of the season
The season for shooting deer closed on the
18th
Places Of business will be closed on Christ,
nas.
Williamsport is to haye a bicycle rink
H Son.
masquerade, at the skating rink, is being
asitaed
shcemaking business is dull considering the
tine Of year
$. A. worman is lying seriously i'll at his
tmicile in Espy
Mckinney moves into his new store on
Wednesday,.
We are glad TO see that Mr.. Baltzer Laycock
/. conyalescent.
lanes Reilly has an excellent assistant in
bi. barber shop.
There are twenty candidates for court crer
in Berks county
Shenandoah's opera House will be opened
90 or about the goth.
On the 3lsl there will be new moon, the
second this month.
There will be an adjourned Court on the h
If January, for argument.
\ Ice that is being taken out now averages
eight inches in thickness
The Exchange" fed its guests, last Sunday.
O, P4rtridges and Guinea hens.
The churches are finely decorated with
.prnce and laurel for the holidays.
The dry weather is a boon to the logmen
Il aleviates their labor consider ably
The famous Port Hart is heard of again,
tr,ve'ing with some kind of a hall show.
The American Union Telegraph Company
ran4mit messages at very low rates to all parts
The dead body of an unknown man was
found in the canal at Danvile on Friday last.
Bears are reported more numerous in Pike
county this winter than for man. seasons past
The Baptists will have Christmas tree for
their Sunday school .cho lars this evening
Examinations were held this week at the
Normal School. The term closed on Wed mes
\ day.
Tamaqua is being depopul,ted Two streets
hst fifty residents by removals from town.
Two married sisters of Joseph Weaver, liv.
j5, in Illinois, were visiting him about week
$50.
A new style bonnet may be photographed by
,amming ripe tomato against a board
tnce.
The merchants were busy this week, the
pwn being full of people making their holiday
Purchases.
It's reported that that dread disease small
Eox is making its appearance in the lower end
oLuzerne county.
Two fair damsels of Cataw;ssa, recently
,kated from that place to Bloom, and back.
/ Well done, for girls
/ 1t is rumored that small po1 has made its ap-
/ yearance among the workmen of the North q
West Branch Railroad.
In the absence of snow, sleighing carnivals
being impossible, these beautiful evenings are
lelightful for skating parties.
Epizooty is disappearing to great extent,
/ yhat few cases remain are not of as malignant
| nature as heretofore.
Rapidly approaches the day for making new
resolutions Wonder how many have kept
| those made last New Years
|. S. Kuhn has laid in about so loads OF
| ice in his new ice house. The house has ca.
city Of nearly one hundred loads.
We learn through our exchanges that the
American Union Telegraph Company intend
| mining cable across the Atlantic.
Many are complaining Of the length of the
DAYS, but you don't hear the young folks com
! planning of the length of the nights.
Edward Very, a workman at Llckard's car
works received some severe bruises by the fall
/ Of a wheel on him, which he was rolling across
hs shop.
We hope that all persons who have received
statements of their accounts from this office
sill settle up promptly by the first OF the New
Year.
Judge Walker of Schuylkill conny, held
court for Judge Elwell at Danville this week
be being forbidden to attend by the doctor OF
account Of sore throat and hoarseness.