The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-03-30

Independents of Rhode Island, aad will
probably be elected
w. X. Vanderbilt, son of w. III.
Vanderbilt of New York, gave a party
at his Fifth, Avenue residence on Mon
day night, which cost not less than
100000. Most of the dresses came
from Paris.
Five men paid the penalty of their
crimes on the scaffold on Good Friday,
William Barks and Green Cunningham
were hanged at Lafayette, Georgia,
Jerome Holt at Graham, North Carroll
ma, Nicholas Walker at Little Rock,
Arkansas, and Frederick White at
Franklin, Texas.
A locomotive burning coal dirt was at
tached to fast express on the Bound
Brook road Tuesday and brought the
train through on schedule time. The
cost for the prepared coal dirt, for the
round trip of l20 miles, was Sl.O5, or
one-seventh the usual expense of coal.
Mention is made OF new kind of
horseshoe, composed of three thickness.
cs of cowhide compressed into n steel
mould and subjected to chemical
| preparation. 1t is said to last longer
than the common shoe, weighs only one
fourth as much, requires no corks, and
is very elastic.
Lyman Hess, barber of Lebanon
| forwarded to Governor Pat.ison an
Easter egg which is artistically engrav-
ed with representations of the Goddess
of Liberty, the American eagle with q
streamer in its mouth, with the words,
"Democratc victory;" a rooster crow
ing; the words, 10000 for Pattison,"
and rose encircled by stars The egg
was very much admired by Governor
Pattison, and he has returned his thanks
to Mr.. Hess for the present
II have never yet" said au old hang
man, ''seen man condemned TO be
hung who did not sleep souudly the
last night of his life and eat hearty
breakfast before mounting the scaffold.
n terrible mental strain kept up for
days and weeks has tendency to blunt
the sensiblities. Hence, as thu hour
of death approaches, they live in kind
of dream the animal in their nature
predomnates. and they eat and sleep
in apparent disregard of the shadow of
death that is upon them"
The annual meeting OF the stockhold-
ers of the Bell Telephone Company was
neld at Boston, Tuesday. The total
earnings for the past year were s $40.
63l. 27,2l0 subscribers have been
added during the past year and 2,020,-
2S4 miles of wire have been added The
underground wires in Boston have been
found to transmit distinctly only for
short distances and it will be necessary
to devise further Improvement before
they can be made available to any ex-
tent. 1t was voted that the capital
stock of the company be increased
from S7,300,000 to S9,S00,000.
A drunkard labored under a curious
hallucination of the faculty of hearing.
He arose every morning full of the
best resolutions, and determined to
keep sober for the day. Unfortunate
ly, the road to where he worked passed
by certain public house, and at some
distance from this fatal spot he became
conscious of two voices crying in his
ear, the one, ale will rot go ill.," the
other "lIe will go in.' AS he got near
the door the voice of the tempter in
creased in force till it quite drowned
that of the good angel. The matter
always ended by his going in aud TAX
ing a drink, when the hallucinations
ceased as if by enchantment.
The state mineralogist OF California
estimates the quantity of lumber cut
each year in California and shipped
eastward at 70,000,000 feet Cord wood
is sent in about an equal quantity. The
heaviest drafts on the mountain timber
have been for Navada use. The Com
stock lode alone required l,000,000.000
feet Notwithstanding this cutting, the
replenishing goes on, and no fears are
felt for lack. The Truckee basin and
the region around Lake Tahoe have
been res sorted to most for timber of any
regions of the state; but they represent
it is said, but small fraction of the
timber bearing surface of the mountains,
say 10000 acres out of total of sever
al million acres east of the main summit
of the Sierra Nevada range. Estimates
claim that there is timber enough on
the eastern slope of the mountains, be
tween Hope valley and Beckwith pass,
to supply Utah and Nevada for half
century, not taking into the account
the reproduction that is in progress.
Hiram Bowermaster is a wood-chop-
per and lives in the hill country along
the western slope of South Mountain,
about six miles from Shppensburg,
Cumberland county, Jack Pettys, the
man who according to his postal card,
confessed TO having killed MIS-. McCrea-
dy, for numbering whom Silas Gray is
to be hanged on the oath of May, was
a convict, and Bowermaster says con-
fessed the crime to him IN prison.
Bowermas,er has been in the Eastern
Penitentiary for the past year for felo-
nious assault on the Constable of Ship
pensburg. He was released last Satur
day, and reading of the conviction OF
Silas Gray at once took steps to reveal
the confession of Pettys, He wrote
one postal card TO Ex-Lieutenant Gov
ernor Latta, Silas Gray's counsel, and
fearing that it might miscarry sent an
other to the Harrisburg newspaper.
Governor Pattison has examined
the postal card containing the state
ment made by Hiram Bowermaster.
The Governor has decided on a thor
ougn investigation of the matter, and
at his direction w. 5. Stenger, Secreta
ry of the commonwealth, informed Ex-
Linutenant Governor Latta OF his deter
mination. a withdrawal of the death
warrant will promptly follow the con-
tirmation of Bowermaster, who will be
asked by the Governor to make oath to