The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-06-29
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n lnedlre Ill DcrVlO, switzerland, was
destroyed by fire on June oath at which
forty.seven lives were lost.
Henry Ward Beecher celebrated his
SEVENTEEN birthday on Monday. A
great crowd of people assembled at his
home in Brooklyn to offer congratula-
tions.
One evening last week a catamount
killed fifty five chickens, two turkeys
and young pig for Huntingdon
county man. The varmint was killed
the same evening by dogs.
AT Wilkes Barre, June 25th the jury
rendered verdict of guilty in the case
of Luke Kelly and Thomas Handley,
for highway robbery and shooting Ed
ward Rosengrant of Munroe township.
One year ago there were not over
200 people in Dickey county, Dakota.
Now the population is from 1000 to
5000 and rapidly increasing.
Along the line of the Philadelphia
and Reading railroad forty iron furna-
ces have gone out of blast on account
of the dullness of the trade.
The Jews are assured by a learned
Christian, the Rev. Dr. Samuel ii. Kel-
logg, of the western theological semi
nary, that the promise of return to
their ancient land will be literally real
lied.
A Philadelphia servant girl has got
a month off and gone to Washington
to see about pension. She once
worked for three consecutive weeks in
family that lost second cousin in the
war.
The Wi.kesbarre Coal Company
have purchased the Christy coal lands
at Gallilzin, and are at present making
surveys and will commence mining
operations as soon as arrangements
can be made.
There is Boston pastor who so of
ten incites his people to large contribu-
tions that the Congregationalist suggests
as text for his funeral sermon "Last
of all the beggar die also "
The principal stakeholder in five
Connecticut cotton mills declares that
they are running at an actual loss, and
would be shut if the companies did
not dislike to stop their employees
means of livelihood.
1t is curious to read to-day, in Bal
timore paper published early in the cen
tury, that l39 slaves had been sold at
auction for the benefit of the United
States and the proceeds, over S50,000,
placed IN the treasury.
After much search the last will and
testament of n. l.. Dukes has been
found. 1t is written on the back of a
letter, and, as no one was looking for
a will in such place, it came near be-
ing overlooked with other old papers.
On the morning of December 29, 1882,
the day of the habeas corpus hearing,
while sitting in the sheriff's parlor, and
anticipating his liberation that day,
Dukes took out of his pocket a letter
he had received from his friend, Isaac
Van Voorhis, of Pittsburg, and wrote
on the back of it his will in brief form.
lie gave two thousand dollars to Miss
Mary Beeson, TO whom he was sup
posed to be engaged, and the rest of
his property, without specification to
his mother, Mrs. Struble
The changes in the Post Office De
partment were inaugurated Monday by
the displacement of Mr.. Bassett Chief
Clerk of the department, and the ap
pointment Of Charles Nj. Walker, of
Indiana. The change will take effect
July |. Mr. Bassett will be provided
for elsewhere in the same Office. There
is nothing alleged to his discredit and
his efficiency as Chief CLERK has been
highly commended, General Gresham
naturally desired personal friend in
the place, which is a confidential posi-
tion, and selected Mr. Walker The
la ter is forneraly from General Gres
hams part of Indiana aud is now an
editor of the Indianapolis Times. lie
was Fifth Auditor of the Treasury un-
der Grant and Chief Justice Chase's
biographer