The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-12-18
Pennsylvania News.

A steamboat runs daily between
Wilkesbarre and Nanticoke and Ply
mouth
The Delaware and Hudson Company
are pushing their railroad to Wilkes.
barre.
Incaudescent lights will soon ilumi
nate the progressive city of Wilkes
barre.
Mr.. Randall is said to favor Pitts.
burg as the location for the National
foundry.
The prisoners who broke Jail at
Beaver are still enjoying their personal
liberty.
Next on the list of Scranton's nume-
rous industries will be a match manu-
factory.
The Hungarian church at Hazleton
has over 4,OOO ''Huns' under its iuris-
diction.
Mr.. Gowen is confident of success
in his fight for the Reading Railroad
presidency.
The Sheriff of Lackawanna is hunt
ing up Hugh Gerrity, a crooked tax
collector, reported to be about $500 in
arrears.
One of Scranton's tiourishing indust-
res is the corset factory, worked
principally by girls, with more demand
than supply.
The "iivorce abomination" is epi-
demic in Philadelphia. Twenty-one
complies were put asunder by the courts
one day last week.
Secetary Edge, of the State Board
of Agriculture, favors innoculaton as
a preventive of pleuro-pneumopia. He
also recommends that every infected
herd be killed.
The Cory pail factory makes 1900
pals and 800 tubs per day and cannot
supply the demand. One hundred
men are enjoyed and 10000 feet of
lumber is used each week.
No tramps need apply at Salisbury
hereafter. That class of visitors are
given Just ten minutes to "git," and
knowing what will result from non
compliance with the notice, they ''stand
not upon the order of their going, but
go at once.
A man gave himself up to the Ale
gheny police authorities few days
ago and asserted that, having disposed
of stock of counterfeit money except
one lead dollar. which he had, not be-
cause he did not try to pass it, he was
now ready to suffer for the offense.
An order issued by the Erie school
board prohibits pupils from making
presents to teachers, for the reason that
''many poor children had been forced
into contributions for such objects by
their companions, or sneered at because
of their inability to assist in making
such presents
In the matter of big babies Clarion
'takeS the cake the latest arrival
there being a siXteen-pound girl. The
Democrat predicts that if the young
lady is correspondngly large when
she reaches the age of sweet SIXTEEN"
she will be abundantly able TO paddle
her own canoe
Colonel Holtzworth, of Gettysburg
the famous battle field guide, IN his
lecturing tour through the State tells
the people what he knows of one of
the greatest military contests on record.
Wherever the Colonel APPEARS on the
lecture platform he attracts large and
aprreciatlve audiences,
Rev. Otto Won Xech, Lutheran
minister at Pi't-bnrg, ha, adopted y
new faith, declared ii, hchet in the
death OF the soul, aud that the milIeni-
um has begun, and resigned his posi-
tior as pastor, "bccause be could no
longer preach what he believed and
keep his ordination VOW" He is
now holding meetings 'on his own
hook with considerable following
The State Superintendent of the
| Womans Christian Temperance Uuiou
has started a movement TO ascertain
whether temperance physiology is
being taught regularly in the public
schools, in accordance with the require
ments of the law. Committees Of the
local unions are to visit the school.
weekly to investigate the matter, and
make monthly report to the Stat,
Superintendent.
The Patriotic Sons of America have
inaugurated movement for the liqui
dation Of the debt resting upon the
Washington headquarters at Valley
Forge. \ series of entertainments
are to be given by each Camp IN tht
State, the proceeds to be devoted tC
the memorial fund The elimination
of these proceedings will be a granC
gathering of the Order and parade
at Valley Forge on next Fourth o
July,