The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1882-03-24
News Items.

The Senate on Wednesday, confirmed
A. 5. Orr as postmaster at Wilkes Barre.
The Norwegian bark Sidon, from Gu
ba March 3, reports passing through fifty
miles of dead Goldfish in lat. 40 long. II.
Solomon Malick Esq, prominent
lawyer of Sunbury, died on Monday
morning.
The number of cases of small pox in
South Bethlehem is now stated to be liS,
in IA families.
A little child was run over by a beer
wagon in the streets of Pittston on Mon
day, and instantly killed.
The Philadelphia and Reading rail
road company and associated companies
pay out Sl,000,000 a month in wages.
John B. Cough, the veteran TEN.
perance lecturer, is about to retire from
public life.
We presume the next bill will be to
retire Grant as an Admiral; he was
once Commander-in-Chief of the navy
as well as army Buffalo Courier
Judge Blatchford has notified the
President of his acceptance of the Office
of associate justice of the Supreme
| Court.
In Patterson, n. j., two Hollanders
were thrown from scaffolding on st.
Patrick's Day by two lrishmen, who
tried to get them to celebrate the day.
One of the injured men is in q danger
GUS condition.
| Debilitated persons, and sufferers from
wasting diseases sucn as consumption,
scrofula, kidney affections, will be
greatly benefited by using Browns
Iron Bitters.
Colored cadet Whitaker was found
guilty by the court martial and sentenced
to dishonorable discharge from the ser
vice and one years imprisonment in the
penitentiary. The President disapproved
of the sentence and ordered Whtta-
ker to be released.
Frederick A. Palmer late auditor OF
the city of Newark, was sentenced on
Saturday to the State prison for twenty
years, by Judge Depue, on eight indict
ments for obtaining money from the city
treasury on forged warrants. The sum
distracted is about S22O,OOO.
The Senate has passed bill forbid
ding the sale of lottery tickets and the
advertisement of lotteries in Washing
ton. The penalty is Imprisonment for
not more than a year or less than a
month, or fine not exceeding thous-
and dollars.
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As being a certain cure for the worst
forms of dyspepsia, indigestion, con
stipation, impurity OF blood, torpid
liver, disordered kidneys, etc, and as a
medicine for eradicating every species
of humor, from an ordinary pimple to
the worst ulcer, Burdock Blood Bitters
sand unrivaled Price Sl.O0.
| Professor j. f. Hawker, superinten
dent of schools of Scranton, has obtained
$4,000 damages in the suit brought by
him against Morris Goldsmith, prom
inent merchant of that city, for signing
a lbelous petition to the State superin
tendent of schools.
Five boys at St. Joseph Mo. were
smothered by the caving in of tunne
they were digging through a hill on the
outskirts of the town. Only one was
alive when taken out and he lived but {
moment.
HEAVY SWELL.
Jacob II. Bloomer, Virgille, n. Y.
writes: Thomas Eclectric Oil cured Q
badly swollen neck and sore throat il
forty eight hours. My wife was alsc
cured of n lame foot in twenty .foul
hours.
NJ. f. Dickson of Chicago took tc
Washington on Saturday.a petition for
the pardon of Sergeant Mason. The
petition is 2,400 feet long and is said tC
contain 100000 names. 1t is elaborate ely
gotten up, and required two expert pa
per hangers two hours to fold it properly
Evansville, Qnd) Journal.
Mr.. Frank S. Mueller, 025 w. Frank
lin street, cited to a Journal reporter
the case of Mr. Henry Rhenick, who fo
four years suffered with rheumatism
which was cured by the use of two bot
ties of st. Jacobs Oil
In the flooded district of the Mississip
| pi, empty railroad cars have been useC
as places of shelter by the unfortunate
who were driven from their homes.
SMOOTH COMPLEXION.
Can be had by every lady who will
use Parker's Ginger Tonic. Regulatin.
the internal organs and purifying tn
blood it quickly removes pimples anC
gives a healthy bloom to the cheek
Read about it in another column.
On Saturday General Lew Wallace
United States Minister at Constantinople
was granted an audience with the Sultal
, which lasted seven hours and was main
ly devoted to discussion of the judicia
and-taxcollecting systems of the country
The Sultan expressed the most riendl,
sentiments towards the United States
1t is useless to deny that the brightes
and fairest fall easy victims to con
sumption, and equally fruitless to ignor
the fact that decline has its origin il
many cases in neglected catarrh San
fords Radical Cure is pure, sweet
balsamic specific.
Z. ID. Queens, young Englishman
in Jail for assaulting young lady, a
, Tampa, Fla. wastaken out by mob ol
, Saturday and hanged to a tree in IN
, yard of the court house white tn
, United States circuit court was in session
despite the sheriff and military,
. A terrible wreck occurred on tn
, Pennsylvania railroad, on Sunday night
. near Downingtown. A car of a west
bound freight jumped the track an,
, was struck by an east bound freight. Tn
: engine and tank of the latter train will