The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1880-12-03
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King kalakaua, of the Sandwich Islands
expects to start soon tor trip through Eu-
rope and the United States.
Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant, jr, received as
bridal present from her father the sum OF
100000 in government bonds
Jenny Lind's first night nettei $50 600;
Rachel's, S5,000 Gerster's, s., 2O9 Chris
tine Nilsson's, 50, 800, and Sara Bernhardt.,
with all her advertising, only a little more
than 50 900.
| John Keelan, after numbering his father
at Stratford, Ontario, coolly sauntered into
the house, ate hearty supper, slept sound
ly all night, and, when the body was discov-
cred in the morning, calmly said: "Oh,
yes killed the old cuss.'
General Benjamin ?. Butler and Others
| have petitioned for a charter for an elevated
road in Boston, with capital o f 81 900 900.
The road is to be shaped like an inverted
", with three rails, one at the apex and
the other two at the bottom of the arms to
stea1y the cars
Mr.. George G. Glrham has been talking
with General Garfield and says that the
next administration will have a strong stall
wart flavor This has been suspected, but
perhaps Mr. Gorham's announcement will
not be regarded as official,
There is now about SS5, 900 900 in gold
bullion standing to the credit of the Unit
ed States Treasurer, out of which it has
been decided to coin, monthly, $4,000, 900
oi the denominations of five and ten dollars
The gold coins of less denomination than
i've dollars will be coined at present The
work referred to will be performed at the
Philadelphia mint. 1t is thought probable
that this coinage will be continued until the
$50 900, 900 of bullion ON hand is worked
up.
WASHINGTON, November 24.-Gen. Gar.
held could not come to Washington from
Mentor without stopping off at Harrisburg
to dine with Don Cameron. OF course, that
fact has no significance. Oh, certainly not.
The first man to welcome his arrival at the
capital was Bob Ingersoll, and the first wo-
man was Mrs. Spencer, noted woman's
rights agitator. He starts well under these
benign influences. Hayes cent his carriage
to the station with pair of horses that have
been we'll kept at the public expense. This
cheap civility was the first the Fraudulent
President ever extended in public form
to this man, without whose vote on the
electoral commission he would not have
been put in the White House.-.Sun.
There is Lying at the house of Capt
Means girl about 8 years of ago, whose
history is remarkable. An American vessel
| called at small island in the Pacific Ocean
| to procure water. The island was inhabited
by cannibals. They brought this little girl
to sell for the Captains dinner, offering to
prepare her for cooking if they wovld buy
| The Captain told them he would buy her
She was brought, and the Captain afterward
meeting Capt. Means, gave her to him
She still believes she will be killed and eat,
en-, and when strangers enter the house she
clings to Mrs. Means, and begs protection
| of her,
The British Government is now building
at Chatham naval monster called the Poly.
phemus. This vessel, says correspondent
which is utterly unlike anything previously
seen in the royal navy, is designed as an ar.
mored sheet plated ram Of two thousand six
hundred and forty tons and five thousand
| FIVE hundred horsepower. She is built al
most entirely of steel, and as a torpedo ram
she will be the most formidable vessel in
the orld, and the opinion has been formed
that there is no vessel shoat, no matter o.
what description, which could survive after
one or two blows from her ram