The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1880-12-17
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Cough has been lecturing twenty five

Cough has been lecturing twenty. FIVE
years.
The late Mary Shields, of PHILADELPHIA
bequeathed $4,000 to Pennsylvania's char
liable institutions.
Hancock received more votes in Ohio than
any Republican ever received up to 1880,
The estate of the late Governor Williams
of Indiana is estimated to be worth 100000
of which $500 is invested in farming
lands.
Senator Thurman is spoken Of as the only
politician whose name was never connected
with that of railroad.
General Malone, the readjuster from Vir-
ginis, has chosen his seat on the Democrat.
ic side of the United States Senate chamber.
The Delaware Legislature will be asked to
create an Office by which the records of the
marriages, births and deaths in that State
may be kept.
There are nineteen msrderers in the Chi
cags jail. II is evident that hog killing isn't
the only Chicago industry.
The rain annually carries to the earth
quantity OF nitrate of ammonia eqlivolent
to three pounds per acre.
Philadelphia raised 800, 900 to present to
General Grant, who has an income ofs7 900
per year. The same city raised S25 900 for
the 1000 Milton sufferers.
The Chinese exodus from California
amounted to 2000 souls during the first week
of Novem per.
At Guys Mills, Crawford county on Wed
nesday afternoon, gun was accidently
Frank Sapinott. The load tore away the fin
gers on the right hand of a babe lying asleep
on its mothers lap.
After the horse is nine years old wrin-
kle comes in the eye lid at the upper
corner of the lower lid, and every year
thereafter he has one well defined wrinkle
for each year of his age over nine
Accounts come from Wayne county that a
colored orator is peranibulating that county
for the ostepsible purpose of collecting
frnds for college in Virginia. He is under
the influence of liquor most of the time, and
from the conflicting stories he tells is set
down as an impositor.
Some idea of the increase of travel on the
elevated roads in New York may be gath
cred from the reports made at the Meeting Of
the Manh"ttan company. For the fiscal
year oflS79, As, 900 900 passengers were car
ried, while for the same period in 1880 the
number was 60,000,000
According to the Mine Inspe ctor's report
the number of den and boys employed in
and about the mines of the anthracite coal
| field was 66,06S, divided as follows; In the
Will esbarre or Wyoming district, 16O99
Middle or Hszleton and Carbon district
$3.50, in the First Second and Third Schuyl-
kill districts, 2S,l74.
The iron ore mines at Rittenhouse Gap
Longswamp township, Berks county, are
among the most productive in the State.
The greatest depth to which shaft has
been sunk is over 200 feet and the ore is OF
superior quality. 1t is mined by the Thomas
iron company, of Lehigh county.
1t is charged in Shannaudoah that the
proceeds ofa ball gotten up there for the
purpose Of assisting the widow of John Sim
ey. at one time the king of the coal regions,
instead of being given to her, were devoted
to the payment OF the expenses of Green
back parade Mrs. Siney says she never re-
ceived penny of it.
An honest old grocer Of Detroit, not to
be outdone by the rich men who are
planking down thsir thousands to the
Grant fund, has offered to let the general
have six cracker and cheese free lunches
every week.
Among the vagrants who applied for re.
lief to the police authorities of New York
city last week was young man named
Rudolph Ruckert. When called upon tc
give an account of himself, he said that hi
father was the principal of a college a
Darmstadt, and had given him a first elias
education. He spike Greek, Latin, He
brew, French, English, German AID Ital
ian, and when put to the test was fount
not to have exaggerated his accomplish
ments. He had come over to this country
to turn his attaiumen,s to sccount, and ha(
met with poor success,
The number of old men who have gou,
crazy over marriages with young ladies IL
| Enulan1 latalv il aycitiny unntar and finn
The latest is divine OF 80 with grandchild
rem already married. He is rich in loave
and fishes, outside the spiritual vineyard ,ant
is what msnageiug mother-in-law or
busness-minded damsel would consider
good catch. The lady is only Is, and wa
baptised by her future spouse when he haC
a quiyerful Of grandchildren running alb )ut
Tues ay morning last week II. zimmerman
a prominent civil engineer, residing at Mt
Carmel, Northumberland county, was fount
at his home dead in bed with his brain,
blown out on the pillow; a pistol clasped il
his hand and the bed covers wrapped W
comfortably around his neck. His wife
with whom he had lived very unhappily ,sep
in all adjoining room. She says she hearc
pistol shot about O'Clock this morning
but did not arise. The shooting has created
great deal of excitement at Mt. Carmel, ant
it is freely said that zimmerman did no
shoot himself. Deceased wac forty five year,
old and leaves son and daughter. he wa:
a very prominent citizen Of Mt. Carmel.
Andrew Gagel informed neighbor a
Dansviile, N Y, that his mother had faller
into a cistern and was drowned. The neigh
Dor said they ought to get her out at once be-
cause she might be resusctated but Andrew
replied that it was too late, and she was sure
ly dead. She WAS rescued however, and wher
she began to revive Andrew said he shouldn'
wonder if she should accuse him OF pushing
her in. He was right, for she made the charge
with the first breath she could command. Hs
had induced her to stoop over the cisterr
| and remove some leaves, and theu tumbleC