The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-11-23

owing 10 the depression IN the iron
and steel trade, it is expected that other
firms in Pittsburg will shut down, fol-
lowing the example Of Oliver Bro.
theirs Il Phillips and the Superior rail
mill.
Spinner, ex.Treasurcr of the United
States, and now farmer in Florida,
where the alligators grin when they see
his signature, has been in Washington
in excellent health and has returned to
to his orange groves.
Ex Governor Cohurn, of Maine, re-
Gently sold $SO0,OOO worth of Western
land in single lot, and it is said that
it was the largest sale of country pro
perty ever made in the United States
by single individual.
John Jones, of Shenandoah, Michael
Moore, of Mahanoy City, and Michael
Whalen, of Ashland, were the first
patients received at the Miners Hospi.
tai. The first two were hurt in the
mines, but the third was injured while
intoxicated.
An illustration of the activity in cot
ton manufacturing in the South is af-
forded by the mill in Rome Ga, which
has doubled its machinery since its
start, eighteen months ago. 1t is run
ming night and day, and is forty days
behind its orders.
It'd Brimmer, the escaped Lancaster
firebug, has been captured in Harris
burg, after an exciting chase, in which
number of shots were exchanged be-
tween him and the police. Brimmer
was wounded in the hand, and he has
been taken back to the Lancaster
Jail.
The days of witchcraft superstition
are called to mind in case that has
just transpired in Erie Kate Becker
was arrraigned on Monday and held to
answer the charge of attempting to
cremate Doctress Susan Myers, who, it
is alleged, resorts to hidden sciences or
superstitious fummeries, to effect cures,
and also that she is versed in the black
art, whatever that may be. Mrs.
Myers charges that Mrs. Becker endea-
vored to burn her because her cures and
entertainments were evidences that she
was sorceress.
A couple were married at railroad
speed on Monday morning on the Bal
timore and Ohio road, in the vicinity
of the Gretna Green of Washington
county, the contracting parties being
James l, Hague and Miss Sheets, Of
Salesville, Ohio. The reverend gentle
man who performed the ceremony COM
menced a prayer just before entering
the tunnel at West Alexander, and con-
tinued while surrounded by the dark
ness of the place. Conductor Brady,
and Marcus Bear, a drummer of Wheel
ing, witnessed the ceremony which was
performed in the baggage car.
Major Nickerson escapes the penal
ties of conduct outrageously unbecom-
ing officer and gentleman through the
acceptance of his resignation by the
President. His resignation should
have been rejected and he compelled to
stand trial by court-martial for his Of
fense. 1t is doubtful if any class Of
men IN the public service have created
as many scandals in the past year as
officers in the army it is equally doubt
full if any class of offenders have re-
ceived such fraudulent clemency from
the Executive authority. 1t is only in
cases like Sergeant Mason's that mercy
is throttled. Is it because Mason is
poor and without friends ?
One of the queerest Curiosities on the
globe is man with silver skull who
is now visiting at Louisville, Ky. Dur
ing fiercely contested battle in the late
war this interesting individual was
struck in the head with piece of shell,
which tore away the entire top of his
skull, leaving the brain most horribly
exposed. Strange to say, he survived
the terrible wound, and surgeon sue
ceeded in fitting silver plate over the
opening, which shielded the brain
equally as well as the skull. This plate
is about the size of mans hand. and
works on hinges, and may be raised up
and down at will. The reskulled man
does not experience the least pain, and,
as he wears wig, all evidence of a
shattered skull is concealed. .....
Anna Dickinson has for the present
at least abandoned the stage and return
ed to the platform, For many years
she has made labor, in its various
phases, a special study, and she has now
prepared lecture on labor entitled,
''To the Rescue Under an arrange
ment perfected by her manager, Frank
L. Gardner, she will open the Conven-
ton at Detroit of the Knights of Labor
on the 10th prox.
Thenceforth she will labor in the in
terest of the Knights, of whom there
are now not less than a million in all
parts of the country. Her work will
be to some extent in the nature of poll
tical organization, and, as the coming
year is a presidential one, it is possible
that Miss Dickinson will play an i'm
portant part.