The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-12-30
News Items.

Engineer Melville has telegraphed to
the American Legation at St Petersburg
that the Jeanette was surrounded and
crushed by ice on the Esd of June. in
latitude n north, and longitude l57
east. The crew left the vessel in three
boats. About fifty miles from the mouth
of the Jena they were separated by VIC.
lent winds and thick fogs. Boat No. 8,
commanded by Engineer Melville, arri
we'd on the 20th of September at the cas-
tern mouth of the river Jena, where il
was stopped BY blocks of ice, near the
village OF Bolenenga, inhabited by idol
aters. Boat No. | reached the same
spot. The occupants of these boats
state that Lieutenant Delong and DIR.
Amber, with twelve others, landed at
the northern mouth of the Jena, and are
in fearful condition, suffering from frost
bitten limbs. A party of the Inhabitants
OF Bolenenga started Immediately for
their assistance. Nothing is known of
Boat No. 2.
MIR. John w. Gamet has been re-elec-
ted president of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad for the twenty fourth time.
Lent commences February 22 and
ends April sth
TERRIBLE AcCIDENT--Last Saturday
afternoon, about o'clock, the still in
Z. j. Beyers distillery exploded. The
cause OF the explosion is not known but
It is supposed that the pipes were clog.
ged so as to interrupt the passage Of
steam from one part of the still to the other.
MIR. w. b. Taylor U. S. store keeper and
gauger was in the building at the time.
and, as blinded by the steam he endeay
ored to make his way out, he stumbled
and fell into the ash pit into which had
flowed the scalding liquid from the burs-
ting still. He was terribly scalded but
fingered In agony until 2 o'clock on last
Sunday morning when he died. No other
person was hurt and no damage was
done to the building. The distillery is
IN Valley Township about miles from
Danville. Mr.. Taylor was an estimable
young man and had recently been ad-
mItted to the Montour county bar
Montour american.
The Wilkes-BaTe people talk of cree
ting soldiers monument to commemorate
the names and heroic services of her sons
who fell in the great rebellion.
The "lobby," broken up by Speaker
Randall and Democratic Congress. is
returning to Washington. Fat stealings
are again expected from Republican
rule in the Capitol SO much for the
defeat of Hancock.
Rev. DIR. Leonard Bacon, the eminent
congregational clergyman, died in New
Haven on the oath inst. aged 70 years.
Frederick Lauer, the Reading brewer,
has failed. His liabilities are placed at
S30O,0O0, and assets S25O,OO.
Hon. John j. Pearson, who has been
on the bench in Dauphin county for the
past thirty years, performed his last of.
ficial act on Tuesday. 1t was the issuing
OF a decree of dissolution of the Lochiel
Mutual Aid Association of Harrisburg.
The Postoffice Department has decd-
ed that no supplement containing any
advertisements whatever can be allowed
in the mails at second class rates, unless
the publisher makes an affidavit that the
same rates are paid to him for the ad
vertisements contained in the supple
ment as for those contained in the BODY
OF the paper ';self. The supplement
must contain matter which is printed in
the supplement- for no other reason than
for want of room in the body of the pa
per, and which would have been so pub
lished but for this reason.
TIE BUSINESS MANS BEST FRIEND.
Mr.. G. l.. Oudesluys leading impor-
ter of Baltimore, has stated that nothing
has done his dyspe ,sia, Indigestion &c,
SO much good as that most wonderful of
all tonic and reviving medicines Browns
Iron Bitters just think of it at a
supper the other night, although
dhronic dyspeptic, he says he ate, at ~
o'clock, fried oysters, chicken salad, and
ice cream, after which taking dose of
Iron Bitters,he never spent more pleas
ant night, with no dyspeptic symptoms
in the morning.
EMINENT MEN.
1t nay be observed that no attempt is
made to hunt up out of the way or un-
known places 70 endorse Simmons Liver
Regulator.
Hon. Alexander III. Stephens.
John w. Beckwith, Bishop of Ga.
Gen. Jnc. b. Gordon, U. S. Senator.
Hon. Jno Gill Shorter, Ex-Governor of
Alabama
Rev. David Wills, d. d., President
Oglethrope College.
Bishop Pierce, of Georgia.
And did space and time permit we could
fill avolume with the highest testimon-
ials.
The proceedings in the Guitenu trial
the past week have been but repetition
OF former ones, only that the prisoner has
been more abusive and demonstrative if
possible. Why an American Judge
should permit such conduct on the part
Of prisoner ut the bar is Incompetent
sibe. The opinion that the assassin will
be hanged is fast gaining ground, the
defence of insanity having been badly
damaged by the prosecution. The nation
will breathe more freely when this farce
closes. The people have had quite
enough of it.
a slight flre was caused in Phlladel-
phia recently by the contract of the wires
of the Brush electric light company
with the telephone wires. The councils
are alarmed and it is proposed to have
the wires by which Chestnut street is
now Illuminated removed. 1t is prob
able that the electric wires will be run
under ground.
The State Firemen's Association