The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-03

A tourist train running from Niagara
Falls to the Thousand Islands, came in
collision with freight car which had
been blown on the main track from
switch at Carlton, Orleans county, New
York on last Friday evening. Nine.
teen persons were killed and a great
number were injured.
General Jubal Early fatty denies the
truth of the story that he picked up
from the field of Manassas tiny blue
eyed girl baby whose parents had both
been killed in trying to escape from
their house during the progress of the
fight, and that this "waif of the battle.
field" is now the sole support of Gener-
al Earlys two aged sisters, who cared
for her and brought her up.
The first victim under the order of
the Postmaster General prohibiting
Postmasters of the higher grades from
being absent from their posts without
leave is Lyman NJ. Gates, of Kalamazoo,
Mich. He was suspended last Satur
day, to take effect when his successor
Is appointed.
During the past year the American
Sunday School Union has organized in
various parts OF the United States g.
252,new schools, with 1886 teachers
and S2,749 scholars 1t has aided g.
6S7 other schools, distributed 5,040
Bibles and 13,0S9 Testaments,
Niagara Falls is suffering severely
from its reputation for extortion. The
village looks squalid, the hackmen are
idle, and tourists shun the place Never
theless the "tolls," making it lmpossi.
BILE for the visitor to move without pay
ing from ten cents to half dollar, are
still maintained
The 9ougshoremen, over 100 in
number, at Erie, are OH strike for an
advance of from twenty to twenty i've
cents per hour. The demands of the
monthly men, twenty cents per hour
for over time, were acceded by the Erie
and Western Transportation Company.
Some excitement prevails, but the
strikers are orderly.
The steel mill was in full operation
Monday at Bethlehem. The old mill
will be put in operation the latter part
of the week, and by Monday next all
the departments may be working and
two will be rebuilt. The company pro.
fesses to have plenty of men to do its
work. Every day there are deser,ions
from the ranks of the Amalgamated
association, though its officers are max
ing strong efforts to keep their men in
tact and prevent a possible stampede.
In the English Wesleyan church, the
office of lay preachers is regarded with
much more favor than among the Meth.
odists of this country. Many of our
Methodists look on lay preachers as
bores, and possibly there may be in
some quarters reasonable cause for this
But in England one out of every twenty
eight Wesleyan members is lay
preacher Many of these render active
and eloquent service, and are in con
stant demand.
About ten O'Clock Saturday morning
the ground at New Cranberry, a small
mining village, one mile from Hazleton,
owned by A. Pardee & Co., began to
settle. The vein underneath inclines
at a pitch of about thirty-five degrees
and it is possible that the ground will
sink to considerable depth. Seven
houses have sunk so deep that the oc-
cupants were obliged to move their ef-
fects. In three the plastering was
broken. The sunken ground covers an
area OF about two square acres and
much uneasiness is felt
The Lower Silesian 7ageMan tells
of an aged peasant of that province
who Is entitled to the credit of COM
mitting suicide for the most original of
causes. On his body letter was found
stating that he was going to hang him
self to deprive his relatives, who were
a good for-nothing lot, and had bother
ed him greatly all his life, of the sum
of thirty thalers, which they would re.
ceive from the treasury of benevolent
society if he waited until death over.
took him naturally, but which would be
forfeited if he took his own life.