The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1882-09-29
NEWS ITEMS.

County fairs are in full blast all
around the country.
The total number of men in the Mil.
ton car shops at presents three hundred
and seventy.
Indigestion, dyspepsia, heartburn,
nausea, etc, cured by using Browns
Iron Bitters.
The news is getting out over the
State that Ex-Attorney General Lear
will take the stump for Stewart.
Mr.. Gowen writes to a friend that he
has placed about S6.O0O,OO0 of the 5
per cent, consols and hopes to be sue
cessful in placing the entire loan.
Bets are being made in Pittsburg
that Stewart will poll more votes in
Allegheny county than Beaver will
poll.
Whether the administration is wagg
ing Jay Gould or whether Jay Gould is
wagging the administration does not
fully appear. Gould knows, however.
Private advices say that DR.. J. p.
Wickersham, of Lancaster city, and at
present United States minister to Den
mark, having sent in his resignation,
will shortly sail for home. Climatic
influences having an injurious effect on
his health, is given as the cause of his
resignation.
The combat of the Colorado cowboys
north of Trinidad reads more like a
story of the days of knighthood than
of modern matter r-of-fact life. How.
ard and Kelley had been driving their
herds in company. Their cattle getting
mixed, a dispute arose as to the owner
ship. Tqey agreed to settle it by a
duel between their drovers, six on each
side, mounted, and fifty feet apart AT
the first fire one of Keeley's men were
killed and three of Howards, the vic
tory being thus awarded to the former
Though this combat may never be i'm
mortalized in poesy, the fight of the
Howards and the Keeleys was, n
doubt, as exciting to the participants as
that of the Horath and the Curiath and
probably the Colorado combat is quits
as authentic as the classical one.
Fanny Davenport's acting seems to
please the London critics, in varying
degrees, but her gorgeous dresses, in {
character and calling for such display
give offence. american ladies have {
poor opinion of English taste," say,
Truth, ''if they imagine that the jewe
case and the milliner's trunk are tn,
necessary passports TO popularity il
this country and to success upon thu
stage" Mrs. w. j. Florence gets
rebuke from the same writer: "W,
heard OF nothing but the dresses o
Mrs. Florence. She moved about witt
the trunks of an empress, and in eacl
part she played she had change o
dress for every act. The result wa
not encouraging, for Mrs. Florence wa
ridi cuously overdressed. | fear tina
this overdressing is constitutional de
feet in America ; it is glaringly vulga
when imported to England. Whe
Sarah Brenhardt visited this country
we heard far more about her wardrob
than her talent"
State Senator Stewart, Independent
Republican candidate for Governor d'
clares that he was invited to the cor
ference held in Cameron's house i
Washington last winter, when the slat
for the State Convention was fixed NJ
The assertion that such a conferenC
was held was strenuously denied by til
Cameron men at the time, and althoug
the slate was subsequently carried on
denials are yet being made. Senate
Stewart says that Cameron offered hil
a place on the ticket, that of ii
Supreme Judgeship. Stewart is a dal
gerous man TO Cameron, and the Sen
tor would have been glad to have stov
ed him snugly away on the bench f'
twenty one years. Hechallenges Can
eron TO produce the answer he receives
1t was a fiat refusal. Tom Marshall {
Pittsburg, who declined the place {
Congressman at Large on Cameron
ticket, and who is now stumping f.
Stewart, has been joined by ex-A
torney- general Lear, who was Chai
man Of the Cameron convention. Th
movement seems to be steady gro'
ing.