The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1880-03-05
News from all Around.

Straw is sold in Hazleton by farmers at
90 per ton.
The members of the legislature staving
at home this year saves the State S60OOOO.
Blair county has twenty six prisoners in
the Western Penitentiary.
Since the 2nl of June Catawissa has
lost over fortyfive citizens from diphthe-
ria.
"A number Of members of the police
| force ofReading have resigned to go to their
trades.
Miss Ruth Ann Pierce. Republican |
was defeated for School Director in Bristol,
| Bucks county.
The Republican Postmaster Of Denver
| is the latest of the stalwart armv who have
gone wrong. His deficiency isS 2 400.
| There is p movement looking to con-
solidation of the Butler and regular Demo-
Gratis of Mass
Bills making appropriations for new
public buildings aggregating Sl277O,5OO
have been introduced; not tthe of them
will pass.
The people Of Pittsburg consume 10000
tons of ice every summer. Not a ton has
been put away so far to meet this large de-
mand.
1t is estimated that 10000 men and wo-
men are employed in Philad,lphia in the
manufacture of clothing, making 20,0OoOOO
snts year.
"A dangerous countcrflif silver dollar
il in circulation. j. is partly composed of
black tin. /. not affected by acids and has
the ring of genuine silver.
Hon. Ulysses Mercuro one Of the Justic :
of the Sunremc Court sold recently to a firm
in New York, fosr thousand acres Of wood
land in Sullivan county for S4l 600.
President McCosh saws that Princeton
means to put an end to the gross personal
attacks which have occasionally found n
place in some of the speeches on Glass Dav,
and this without stopping Glass Day or its
wit and fun.
Auditor General Schell has recently
r promulgated decision under the tax laws
of Pennsylvania to the effect that day labors
are not taxable on their "occupations." He
| confines the meaning of the law to the tech
, nical definition of trade or profession.
| 1t is stated that experience has shown at
5 the Petroleum Iron Works, located at Titus
f vile, that barrel Of petroleum will gen.
crate heat sufficient for making ton of iron
while a ton and quarter of coal would be
required for the same result.
, New deposits of slate are constantly
$ being developed in the Lehigh region. A
r quarry has recently been opened in which the
o vein is over hundred feet wide and OF
immense depth, experienced skaters giving il
y as their opinion that the supply is inexhaus.
: tble in quantity.
= Mr.. Hayes has signed bill authorizing
d the use of United States vessel for the free
:. transportation Of supplies to the relief o!
n suffering Irish but the Secretary of the Ma
w has as yet made no move in the matter
u and seems to he waiting for somebody to tel
/ him what to do
Persons making promissory notes or
= printed forms used at banks should be care
n full not to make an s over the in the date
Either new note for lSS-, be used or the
y whole date written before the printed figur
y es on the old blanks. The supreme cour
/ holds the change of figure on note i'm
/. pairs the validity of it.
e The farmers of Clinton county are rails
h ing q great deal of tobacco. In three town
- ships 465 acres were planted last season. anC
the increase throughout the country will be
!. thirty per cent. The average production to
Is the acre is about | 800 pounds, and the
lie average price received is about clever
4, cents.
n The first railroad in Pennsylvania wa,
,e cons tructed in 1926 by Abraham Pott, from
-, his mine east of Port Carbon, nearly mil,
}" in length. 1t was constructed fof woodel
re ties and wooden rails the car wheels were
'e made by John Strouse, of Pottsvile, anC
" the pattern made by Strouse was similar tC
=. the car wheels now in use. The cars wer
" drawn by mules.
., "A fact probably but little known is tina
u the United States nickel five cent piec
" furnishes a key to metric measures an,
Id weights. This coin is two cCntimeters il
diameter, and its weight is five grams. Five
. of them placed in row will give the lengtl
OF the decimeter, and two Of them vii
~ weigh n decagram.
The stockht lders Of the West ,Jersc
= and Atlantic Railroad Company, the neN
i line to Atlantic city, have resolved To --u
8 per cent. bonds to the aggregate of $500
OOO, and execute as security mortgage
on the property and franchises Of the com
pany.
r. "A movement to found coffee taverns il
New York similar to those of London wa
recently proposed at the house Of j. q. Hul
land, the editor of ScriJher's Mdga=iae. Til
he LONDON taverns pay from to per cent
as dividends, and are valuable means of keep
g, ing men from drinking. Who will start til
~ bowl flowing in Philadelphia.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Compan,
insists that merchants whose goods were de
eS stroyed on their railroad ut Pittsburg dun
IL ing the riots shall pay the freight the sam
IT, as if the goods had gone through to thei
Of destination. The amount of freight will b
added by many of the claimants to thei
le damages against the county.
y. The New York TriJuae, rememberin
IL Its old-time antagOnism of Grant still look
n upon him distrusttully, Notwithstanding it
H. -ubseryiency to the Republican party. In
h. recent issue it remarks thus "We do no
:, wish to imply that General Grants admin,
u tratiOn was the cause OF the Republican col
~ laps at the South. But we mus. look Il
IL the facts as they are. II he could not proven
"a these mstortunes when he was in office, it
illogical to assume that his mere nomlnatio
i will repair them
III Two years ago Master j. Kyle, of Cir
= ardviIle, while driving in the mines, wa
VI kicked by L:ue and knocked under
~ loaded wagon losing his right arm and re
II ceiylng injuries TO the left which necessta
10 ted the amputatiOn of his naud above tn
wrist. Since thar time he has devoted hi
'e time to the study Of music and is now capa
:, BILE OF play ing some very difficult music witt
of the stump OF his arm. This seems almos
r incredible, but after receiving an Invitation
, We went to hear him play and SIM
- several pieces of his own composition
O. whjcn were very well rendered ,-.Hahaao
es Tribune,
III The method adopted in Germany 70
IN preventing the slipping aud falling Of horse
e. is as un que as It is simple, lhe smith
rs when lnlsuiug the shoe, punches q hole il
two ends ; as soon as the hole is made h,
taps screw thread and screws into the sho,
lie when ON the horses foot, "A sharp p0inteC
h stud an inch in length. With shoes thu
,f fitted the horse can travel securely over tn,
- MnIst nns,ihle rund Mhrn the nnrsa cnme