The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-07-23

in Clinton county.
The President spent Thursday at
Albany as the guest of Gov. Hill.
Three collieries at Mt. Carmel have
suspended, throwing 1900 out of work.
The eucampments of tho several
brigades of State militia ended last Fri
day.
Another cashier has gone wrong. 1t
is Thompson of ST. Louis, and he stole
about S6S,0O0.
Republican Headquarters have been
opened at the Continental Hotel,
Philadelphia.
The Nanticoke Armory was destroy.
ed by fire on the morning OF the 10th.
Loss $4,000.
5. Davis Page has been appointed
Deputy U. S. Treasurer at Philadel-
phia.
Forepaugh's circus train was wreck
ed in Maine one day last week, by a
broken axle. Twenty seven horses were
killed ard three others injured
III. Willis Bland of Reading, will
contest the Democratic nomination for
l na al
congressman Ermentrout, the present
incumbent
The dead body of man was found
in well at Newport, II. |. which
tproved to be Peter Murphy who had
been missed for four weeks. People
VINO have been drinking the water
don't feel we'll
Two members of congress, Laird of
Nebraska, and Cobb of Indiana, had a
sluggiDg match in the House last FRI
cay. There was bad blood between
them, and they went outside to settle
it. Laird got right handler on Cobb's
nose and drew blood, when they were
separated. The whole affair was most
disgraceful.
A terrible drouth has prevailed for
some time in the New England states.
In Massachusetts the grass is dead,
and the leaves have turned yellow. 1t
is estimated that two-thirds of the
cranberry crop is ruined.
Ex-senator Coke, of Luzerne, has
openly announced himself as favoring
the nomination OF Mr.. Wallace, be-
cause she is the strongest man to head
the party at this juncture.' Mr.. Cox
also says that he thinks Mr. Wallace
will be nominated by reclamation.
Robert Parker, proprietor of the
Curtis House, Shamokin, and quite a
prominent citizen, and Robert Law
renee were lodged in Jail Monday
morning at Sunbury, charged with
having fatally beaten Vincent Rokus,
prominent Pole, of Shamokin.
A Massachusetts newspaper tells the
! old story OF. Isaiah Thomas, who used
| to make almanaca When he was pre-
pairing the one for 1880 one of his boys
asked him what he should put opposite
the "l3th of July" Mr.. Thomas be.
ing engaged, replied. Anything,
anything" The boy, thus ordered, re
turned to the Office and set, Rain,
hail and snow" The country was all
amazement when the day arrived, for
it actually rained, hailed and showed
violently.
The frost bell is doubtless the means
of saving many tons of grapes in the
Northern portions of California, where
the frost sometimes does so much dam
age. 1t consists of wire running
from different parts Of the vineyard
to the house. On the vineyard end of
the wire is an apparatus that rings a
bell at the house when the thermometer
descends to certain degree. When
the bell is let off the occupants of the
house know that their vines are in
danger and Immediately repair to the
vineyard and light fires in different
quarters, and thus prevent, through the
agency of this ingenious electrical de-
vice, the loss of tons of the most lus-
cious fruit grown on the Pacific slope
The Government does not undertake
to guarantee the safe delivery of a
register letter, but it does agree that
every possible precautlon shall oe tax
en- TO prevent its loss. But" SAYS
section 1926 OF the Revised Statues,
'the Post Office Department and its
revenues shall not be liable for the loss
of any mail matter on account of its
being registered" Every register let.
ter, however, is carefully guarded by a
system of checks and receipts, SO that
it is watched from the time of mailing
to the time of delivery, and its possible
loss can at any time be traced to the
identical messenger or carrier by whose
negligence it may be lost. If carrier,
by culpable negligence, lose a register
letter, its value can be recovered from
his bondsmen, and the amount will be
turned over to the person to whom the
letter may have cen addressed.