The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-03-06


freight cars were destroyed by fire
Sunday morning. Loss estimated at
| 100000.
President Arthur, according TO the
London Truth, is going to Europe
early in July for several months. He
intends to stay for some weeks in Eng
land before proceeding to the Cont
nent for tour.
The latest discovery about Daniel
Webster is that he never used n pro-
fame word. His greatness was what
his contemporaries admired, but Bos-
ton scoffer opines that his goodness is
what the next generation will be asked
to reverence him for.
The last reception OF Mrs. McEl-
roy as hostess of the White House was
given Saturday afternoon the 2Sth of
February. The house was so crowded
that number OF women tainted. Pres
ideut Arthur was present the last quar-
ter of an hour of the reception.
The Military Committee at Wash
ington have made some important dis
coveries in connection with the man
agement of the National Soldiers
Home at the time Gen b. +. Butler
was President and Treasurer of the in.
stitution. General Butler has been
called on for an explanation.
Two freight trains were passing
up the grade near Elmira Saturday
last. The first train parted in the mid
die, and the second ran into the ca
boose of the first train crashing through
it. and into car containing ten tons
of powder, causing a frightful explo-
sion. The employees of the train fell
flat upon the ground and escaped uu-
hurt. They knew there was powder
in the car.
The jury in the Wainwright mur-
der trial at Toms River, N. j., an
nounced their verdict on Saturday last.
acquitting Mrs. Wainwright, and her
children, George, Charles and Mary
and convicting Elson X. Rockwell of
murder in the second degree. When
the jury first retired it stood s to 4 in
favor of murder in the first degree.
The judge pronounced sentence of
twenty years in state prison at hard la
Dor.
1t is written of Col Ingersol that
he likes to go in gorgeous barroom
and spend an hour or two in sitting by
one of the tables, "indulging in mad
dening succession of drinks of Vichy
water" He never takes drop of al
coho in these days. There was time
early in his career when he did it, but
Immediately after his marriage he
stopped, and has seldom SO much as
touched glass of wine since He
seems, however, to have just as good a
time in the barroom as the men who
accompany him and who quaff the
foaming champagne.
In one column of the Lawrence
Anaerican is paragraph about the
Germans of that city who have been
out of work this winter, and in some Of
whose families there is much destitu-
ton. In another is letter from a
young man in the Concord reforma-
tory prison to friend, in which he
says This is a fine place. You do not
know what sport we have, nor can you
realize how we are fed" The editor
thinks it lucky that virtue is its own
reward, or snch comparison as might
be made between the poverty of the 10
dustrious worker and the comfort and
of the criminal might
have bad moral influence.
In one of his speeches, delivered
in New York, Mr.. Webster said : ut
has so happened that all the public
services which | have rendered in the
world in my day and generation have
been connected with the general Gov
ernment. | think l ought to make an
was ten days a member
Of the Legislature, and l turned my
thoughts to the search of some good
object in which | could be useful in
hat position and, after much rehec-
ton, | introduced bill which, with
the general consent of both Houses of
the Legislature, passed into law, and
is now law of the State, which en-
acts that no man in the State shall
catch trout in any other manner than
with the ordinary hook and line.
"A distillery has lately been put in
operation in Charleston, S. c., for man.
nfacturing oil from pine wood. The
is subjected TO intense heat in
sealed retorts, and one cord of it is
said to yield fifteen gallons of turpen
tine, eighty gallons of pine-wood oil,
fifty bushels of charcoal, $50 gallons of
wood vinegar, and quantity of in
Hamable gas and vegetable asohaltum
The oil alone is worth about twenty
i've cents a gallon, and is used by
painters and shipbuilders. Apart from
its commercial value, the process is in
teresting as showing how modern
chemistry is able to supplant those old
destructive chemical processes by which
q single article was produced from
given material and all the rest wasted
or ruined.