The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-02-18
General News.


The electoral votes were counted by
Congress last week, Wednesday, and
Garfield and Arthur declared elected.
Four persons were killed by the fall
of the roof of the Lake Shore Depot at
Buffalo last week.
1t is asserted that constable in Frank
lin few days ago, served writ upon
man as he was standing 10y the open
grave of his father.
"A number of new summer resorts are
to be established along the line of the
Pennsylvania railroad on the eastern
slope of the Allegheny moutains.
A Chester county firm of florists and
nurserymen mailed ten tons of circulars
one day recently. The postage on the
shipment aggregated $1,000.
Mrs. Hayes has record of the White
House entertainments under her rule in
the shape of large album, containing
diagrams OF dinner parties, names of
guests, etc.
Emanuel Ettinger, Israel Herb and
Jonathan Meyer, the Snyder county
murderers have been sentenced to be
hanged.
The House Committee of Foreign AZ.
fairs adopted n resolution reafiirming
the Monroe doctrine in reference to non
interference of European governments
in matters on this, continent
John G.. Whittier holds the opinion
that, as respects suffrage for women.
whatever objections may be made TO il
as matter OF expediency, there is no
possible argument against it on the
ground of the principle.
Look ont for those counterfeit $5
United States notes. now in circulation.
They are of the series of 1875, letter ID,
and can be readily detected as they are
poorly printed and shorterthan the genn-
inc notes. If not compared with good
bills, they are likely to deceive.
Jolnny O'Nril. who was sent to the
Ea,ter !',ni rntisry Tor If hy Judge
Rockefeller, of northumberland county.
is reported dying. His mother will APP
ply for pardon, al the next meeting of
the Pardon Board. in oldsr that the boy
may die at home,
The ice i'll the Sus,uehanna at Wilkes
barre broke last Friday. The steamboat
| H. i. Wright. was broken into frag-
ments and disappeared from view. The
Kingston flats were covered with water,
and all travel between Kingston and
Wilkcsbarre suspended.
sIAkEsrEARE REVIVED.
10 ache or not 10 ache liiats the qucs-
ton. This cheerful couundrum. ye rheu.
matte sufferers. is by no means q difficult
proposition in Euclid. Try DR. Thomas
Ecectric Oil aud you will find i, Just AZ
easy not TO ache as to ache.
\ survey was made several months
ago to determine the boundary line be-
tween Wyoming and I.ackawanna coun-
ties. The Wyoming county authorities
refuse to accept the report. as it lops of
too much of their territory,and the Lack
awanna authorities have been restrained
by injunction from assessing taxes on the
land in dispute.
Lieut. Burnett, of the Ninth Cavalry
who as cadet at West POM, last Spring
gave the leading evidence against Whit
takcr, being the first man in his room af
ter the alleged assault, and who is now
summoned to appear before thu
Whitaker court martial, was assigned
, Immediately after graduation, to a regi
ment of colored men, and has served
with it ever since.
The small pox scare throughout tn,
different sections of the country hay,
caused an unprecedented demand for vi
rus. The .Jenner, Pennsylvania ant
Franklin vaccine farms of Franklin co
are daily shipping quills and points to al
parts of the country, and are unable T.
. meet the demands made upon them
= The reputation of the virus produced ol
+ these farms is very high, and the Gus
I toners are from the hest class of physi
t clans.
Mrs. w. \. Palmer, l49 Morgan st
: Buffalo, n. ", writes. Ny child wa
taken Feb. LIST with croup IN its severel
e form and DIR. Thomas Eclectric Oil bt
: ing the only remedy at hand, bega
, giving according to directions and foun
e 1t gave immediate relief gave three {:
doses and the child rested well the "
Il mainder of the night. have used
IN my family for some time with con
; plete success.
It There is some dispute as to the orig
d of the expression, San Axe Ia Grind
v In onr last issue We printed an attic
v from the West Chester Village Reoor
# in which the expression is ascribed
= Charles Mider We have since seen {
e article which says that Benjamin Fran
T. lin was the author of il, under precisel
i the same circumstances as those und,
I which Mr.. Miner is said TO have orig
n mated it. Somebody has evidently g
re things mixed
~ When board of eminent physician
% and chemists announced the discover
!, that by combining some well known Vi
', liable remedies, the most wonderful me6
! cine WAS produced, which would 81,
!" such wide range of diseases that
= most NIL other remedies could he dispeI
=, ed with, many were skeptical; hut pro
~ !" of ITS merits by actual trial has dispell,
y all doubt, and to-dry the DISCOVERIES
- that great medicine, Hop Bitters, a
h honored and hlest by all as benefacto
-DemOcrdt.