The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1880-02-27
News from all Around.

The New York Herald relief fund has
| reached $2O0,69 Sc.
Senator Lamar is again in Washington
| but is obliged 10 use crutches.
Chester county sends 5 400 to the Her
Gd famine fund.
Blower Brown won the six days walk
ing match at London, walking 553 miles.
The population of Schuylkil county will
reach l25 600.
Match mules bring from $3.50 to S275
in Berks county.
The Governor of New York signed the
bill admitting women to vote tor school Of
tlcers.
Grants unpaid hotel bills are now troub-
ling some of the cities where he had the big
ovatOns.
The West Chester and Philadelphia
Railroad company is putting down steel
rails.
Erie and Willamsport telephone each
other over telegraph wire TWO hundred and
fifty miles long.
The bills introduced into Congress for
appropriations for new public buildings now
amount to Sl2,77O,5O0 with six States to
hear from.
The experiment of heating railroad
cars with steam is success \ third train
| arranged for this purpose, has been turned
out Of the shops at Altoona.
Morrison, Bare Il Cass will shortly
| erect, at Tyrone, Il paper mill at "A cost of
$50 900, upon five acres of ground given
by the people of that place.
The Millers' Hospital Commission have
received deeds for the ground donated them
near Ashland, and upon which the hospital
will be erected
A furnace at Port Carbon upon which
experiments have been tried is chilling
rapidly, and the work of year will be
lost.
| 1t Is said that contract has been signed
between Messers. Vanderbilt and Jewett, by
which the Erie Rsilway is to receive 80 pei
cent. of the New England traffic.
| The Democratic State Committee OF
| Indiana believe that the State will go dem.
ocratic this y;ar from 10000 to 10000 ma.
jority.
The newspaper proprietors are petitioning
| Congress to reduce materially or remove the
duty on printing paper and chemicals used
in paper manufacture.
| Blaine has evidently made up his mind
that if he cannot carry the Chicago conven.
tion he wi II kick up the biggest kind of q
row in trying to do it.
-"Stony Batter" the little log house
near Mercersburg, Franklin county, where
President Buchanan was born, is still stand
ing.
Bessie Turner, remembered in connec-
| tion with the Beecher-riton case, is said to
have married Charles Walgram, stage car.
penter of Berry's Broadway Theatre, Brook
| lyn.
Mr.. Peter Sprague, of Boston is sale
to be the oldest member of Congress now
living. He was Representative from Maine
from 1924 too 1929, when he was chosen
Senator and acted in that capacity until
1885.
Scranton leads Reading by few hun
dred inhabitants in its census enumeration
for 1870 but it is thought that the coming
census will make Reading more than
even.
A call for a National Convention oi
Starch Manufacturers has been issued, to
meet at Cincinnati on March 3. 1t will be
attended by all the principal starch manu-
iacturers in the United States representing
a capital of Sl0O,0OO000.
-Melchor Lerch, residing on the farm
of his father in-law, Valentine Uhler, re-
tired farmer in Fo, ks township, Northamp-
ton CO., committed suicide on the 2lst by
hanging, He was about fifty and well to
do. He leaves wife and three children.