The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-04-22
News Items.

Diphtheria prevails to an alarming ex-
tent in Pike county.
Twelve hundred persons have recently
signed the temperance pledge at Brad
ford.
John McIIale, aged l6, was killed
last week, by the bursting of an emery
wheel in the Union Stove Works, Pitts
ton.
A boy fell over the precipice at Roch-
ester into the Genesee River, clear
drop of 120 feet, and was taken out of
the water unhurt.
Parents should remember that the A..
S. II. Co. Black Tip upon children's
shoes protect the shoe from wear as well
as the metal tip, and is not Objectionable
in any way.
An idiot of hideous aspect hid in a
house at Owingsville, KY, and, when
found by woman, threw up his hands
and hallooed at her. The fright killed
her on the spot.
Mrs Michael Flanagan was burned
to death in her house, Pittston, few
days ago. She was alone at the time
and it is supposed her clothes caught fire
whilst she was asleep.
Thousands of ladies' to day cherish
grateful remembranoes of the help deriv.
ed from the use of Lydia Il. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound. 1t positively
cures all female complaints. Send to
Mrs. Lydia e. Pinkham,233 Western Av-
enue, Lynn, Mass, for pamphlets.
A Miss Buckley has announced her
self 90 . candidate for Register and
Recorder of Armstrong county Oil the
Republican ticket.
Raftsmcn are in demand in the lum-
Der regions, rs there is an immense
amount of lumber to be RATED
"My life,' said a grateful lady, "had
been one of intense suffering aud misery
until cured of a disfiguring scrofulous
humor by the Cuticura Remedies. Ask
your druggists about them if troubled
with itching and scaly humors.
Wilkes Barre ia threatened by forest
tireA, and divers powder mills near the
city are endangered.
Benjamin II. Rose, wealthy mer-
chant of Pike county, was thrown from
his wagon on Monday last, and his neck
was broken,
While the moantains at Lykens, pau-
phin, are snowrclad, peach tree at
Campbellstown, in the same county, is
bearing fruit one-quarter developed.
A Kentucky colored clergyman is re
ported on his way to Chicago in search
of his wife and the deacon who has
eloped with her. He carries Bible in
one pocket and says he hopes it
will prevent him from using the piatol
which is in another; but he isn't SURG.
In Forest county there is well which
has recently begun to produce black
oil bearing a close resemblance TO coal
tar. No other well in the vicinity pro-
duces anything like 1t, though the drill
passes through the same kind of slate at
equal distances in all Of them.
A spark from a locomotive set fire to
Q blanket that was wrapped around a
81 900 stallion owned In Pleasant town.
| ship, Warren county. The horse was
maddened by pain and his wild leaps
made relief impossible. He was 80 bad
ly burned that he died within a few
hours of the accident.
In q test case to determine the legal.
| ty of the celebrated anti-treating law OF
Wisconsin it was found that the law was
imperative because of an error in the
text of its supposed enactment-the bill
as drawn specifying the repeal of an
old law that was dropped when the State
statutes underwent their recent revision.
Judge Mallory held the law to be inope,
rative and void.
Monaovi, Wis) Buffalo Co. Herald ]
| NOTIONS OF THE FIRST SETTLERS.
Mr.. w. III, III. Amidon, one of the first
settlers in the town of Chinatown, Wis,
aud one Of the most industrious and
hard working men IN tho county, has
been very severely troubled with rheu-
matte pains during the past few years, so
much so at times, that he was disabled
from performing manual labor Learning
of the wonderful cures effected by the
use of St. Jacobs Oil, he prooareJ q few
bottles and experienced immediate relief
Many others Of our acquaintance have
used it and express themselves as highly
gratified with the relief it has afforded
them. This king of medicines can bl
bought everywhere,
Frederick Grant has forwarded his res
EQUATION as lieutenant colonel on thu
staff of the Lieutenant General of tht
Army, He will enter the employ of tho
Chicago, Texas and Mexican Railroad
Company.
| IMPORTANT TO TRAvELERs.-Special in
ducements are offered you by the Burlington
Route. 1t will pay you to read their sdver
tisement to be- found elsewhere In this issue
| March 10 40-w
For County Superintendent,