The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1882-03-10
BIAN AND DEMOCRAT, BLOOMSBURY, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA

On Friday Leander Miller, of Union
City, Erie county, well todo and res
pected farmer, tied his hands behind his
back and hung himself. No cause for
the act is known
Butler Il. Straug of Tioga county, has
been appointed United States Marshel
for Dakota.
\ freight car loaded with brick was
thrown into a ditch, eight miles from
Joliet. Ills. last week. Ten tramps were
secreted in the car at the time. two of
whom were killed outright and the Others
so badly injured that their lives are de.
spaird Of The names of the unfortu-
mates are not known.
SATISFACTORY.
Mrs. Wallace, Buffalo, n. Y. writes:
81 have used Burdock Blood Bitters for
nervous and bilious headaches. and have
recommended them to my friends be
lieve them superior to any other medi-
cine have used, and can recommend
them to anyone requiring cure for bill
iousness Price Sl.00
The banking firm of Charles A Sweet
IL Co. one of the largest banking houses
in Boston, has failed for large amount.
The extent of the liabilities is notknown.
though it is great
1t is estimated that twenty thousand
persons in Arkansas and thirteen thous-
and in Mississippi are made destitute by
the flood, and at least twenty thousand
cattle have been drowned.
"PoUR on OIL"
L. y. Follett, Marion, o., states that
he has used Thomas Eclectric Oil for
burns, and has found nothing to equal it
in soothing the pain and giving relief.
At Pittsburg, Pa. Saturday, John
Abernethy, who shot and killed Will
lam Leslie in saloon on December 5,
was sentenced to be hanged.
John d. Defrees, public printer at
Washington has resigned.
| Manchester, Mich Enterprise.
Messrs. Haeussler t5 Kingsley, Drug
gists, Manchester, say: We handle st.
Jacobs Oil with abundant success, and
it has given excellent satisfaction to our
customers.
Joshua r. Serfass, lawyer and prom
inent politician of Easton, Pa, was ar.
rested Saturday morning for having un-
lawfully procured the vote of colored
man in the last presidential election
The arrest causes much excitement in
political circles
Nearly ton of opium, valued at S26
600 was smuggled ashore from asteamel
at San Francisco. A revenue captain
two lieutenants and the whole force OF
night inspectors, on duty at the time,
have been dismissed from the service by
order of the Secretary of the Treasury.
The Judiciary Committee of the
United States Senate have reported a
bill to establish a uniform system OF
bankruptcy throughout the United
States.
About $50 citizens of Heading have
been or will be arrested for attending a
cock fight. The S. p. G. A. did it.
David Navarro, the fat boy who has
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throughout the country, died in the pest
house at Pittsburg last Tuesday of small
pox. He was twenty-one years old and
weighed 700 pounds.
The State Supreme Court has rendered
a decision sustaining the validity of the
deferred income bonds of the Reading
r. r. 1t is claimed that this will en-
able Mr.. Gowen to place the Company
on its feet and take the property ont o.
the receivers hands
The Secretary of tie treasury has di
rectcd i suspension of the collection o.
taxes, amounting to about S5OO,OOO, du,
on the Reading railroad pay certif
Gates. Secretary Folger was induced
to take this step in view of the fact tha
two courts have already sustained an in
junction to restrain the collection of tax
and four committees of Congress hay,
at different times reported in favor o
measures to relieve the road from it
He has, therefore, decided that the lc
gality of the tax should be finally anC
authoritatively adjudicated before pro
ceeding to collect.