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

The returns by counties from Ireland
show 3l2,370 persons are slowly starving, and
the outlook tor the coming months Is gloom
ier than predictions have yet painted. Local
efforts are becoming feeble, and the people
look TO the world for succor.
1t has been discovered that to work the
Port Carbon, Schuylkill county, furnaces
night and day will ruin them, and 1t has
been decided to work them on day turn only.
This will lessen the capacity of the furnaces
by onf half, and will throw number Of men
out of work.
Miss Fannie Rank was married recently
to Mr.. William Mctiinness, of Rockford
Illinois The Boston Post gets this intor
nation from the lady's brother aud the inn
portance of the news is altogether in the
fact that Miss Ranck is the young lady who
was a few DAYS ago reported as about to
marry Samuel j. Tilden.
Robert Carson lumberman on Little
Pine Creek, Lycoming county, caught a
catamount in steel trap, the other day.
Carson tried to dispatch the animal with a
stone but the creature drove him back As
the cat was encountered with the trap, the
lumberman at last stunned him and then
easily pounded him to death.
Three new steel boilers for the Edgar
Thomson furnaces, at Bessemer station, on
on the Baltimore and Ohio road, are being
built at the Pittsburg LCcomotivel Works.
They are the largest ever manufactured, be-
ing sixty five feet in length, and the heaters
being forty-fve feet in length.
Peter y. Fredrcks, farmer, near Lans-
dale, Montgomery county, had to kill one OF
his cows, she having been declared incura-
bic from cattle disease. Jacob ID. Mshler
farmer in Worcester township also killed
one of his for the same reason on the same
day. Three more of his cows are infected.
John o. Knapp, near Skippackville, killed
one on the 9TH the Infection seems to be
spreading.
John Murphy, while walking near
Thomaston, Schuylkill county, on Thursday
night. was struck with stone and killed
James Brennan and James Delong were ar
rested, and the latter released or want OF
evidence, while Brennan partially admits the
deed, and says it was done in a fight. The
ceased leaves wife and nine children.
The board of poor directors of Berks
county a, meeting passed resolution for
bidding the Use of smoking tobacco in any
torn by the inmates of the poor house
This action was taken because several fires
took place in the hospital in the last two
years, the origin of which was traced to
sparks falling from pipes. The action ofthe
Berks poor directors is worthy of imitation
throughout the state.
AT Bainbridge Pa, Charles Lain
twenty four years old, murdered his wife
and two children-One IA girl of six years
and the other an infant three months old
and then took his own life by poison. Wher
| discovered, the victims were lying on theil
| beds, and the third child, boy of thre,
years was found with his feet badly frozen
so that bis recovery is doubtful. The fam
| lily was in destitute Circumstances at the tint
of the tragedy.
AT the session of the State Temperate,
convention on the 18th inst, Gov. Davis de
livered an address. The reso utions declared
that no political party should receive sup
| port which does not recognize the iniquit,
of the liquor traffic and demand its destruc
ton. They also urge that parties and off
GERS be held responsible for the enforce
ment ofthe anti-liquor laws, and call upoI
the Legislature to provide such enactment
as shall absolutely prohibit the sale of eide
| for tippling purposes" The resolutions al
so recommend the introduction of temper
ance text books in common schools. Th
session has been one of the most enthusias
tic ever held by the Maine Temperance con
vention.