The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-04-13

mouth, have thus far been discovered
A breach Of promise case is now OF
the docket for Mr.. Breckenridge, afte
being driven to admit that he yielded
to the wiley ways of Miss Pollard
Travellers in the rural district
should note the change of time table
on the Bloomsbury & Sullivan Rail
road. The change took effect the and
of April.
Shirer & Wister, of Philadelphia,
who own the coke works at Connells.
vile have announced their intention
of starting the plant to day if all the
strikers have to be killed.-Patriot.
With the Coxey Army, measles,
and small pox upon us, we regret to
be obliged to report that yellow fever
has thus early been imported 10 our
shores from abroad. Surely "in the
midst Of life we are in death"
"Gentleman Jack" is the anomalous
title of the play in which the pugilist
Corbett appears before the public. 1t
is perhaps fact, however, that so far
education makes the gentleman, Cor
bett is somewhat of an evolutionist
among bruisers.
There was hog case in Miss
ouri court recently in which the law
yers seemed to come out ahead. The
animal, valued at 81, cost Just $500.
at the close of the trial about it. The
case went through the police court,
circuit courts and court of appeals.
A public funeral in church, where
the corpse died of contagious disease,
such as measles for instance, does not
seem to be consistent with the great
alarm and precaution generally taken.
If measles is not smallpox the disease
is yet certainly too near a relative to
it to justify a church funeral in our
opinion.
Official figures from Washington
tend to show quite decrease in I'M
migration. The number of immigrants
entering the port of New York since
January I, up to March IS of this year,
as compared with corresponding
period of last year, has decreased
I7,767. We are among those who be-
lieve that America could worry along
if the number was much less.
Berwick, it seems, reported 40 cases
Of smallpox in Danville. Danvllle
gets mad at Berwick and says you're
another, and that there was only IS
cases discovered, and two Of these
were chicken-pox. Danville even goes
further, while her dander is up, and
charges that the foreign doctors who
thus sullied her character and gave
out these false reports were at the
time in condition to see double, or in
other words drunk.
1t seems to be within the province
of the Junior Order of American Me
chanics to look after religious school
teachers who wear the garb of nuns
while teaching our secular or public
schools. Eternal vigilance is no
doubt the price of liberty both spiritual
and temporal. The Church of Rome
has never been particular friend Of
our secular or public schools, that's
fact, and the J. O. U. A. Ms. seem to
be conversant with this fact.
These questions no doubt frequent
ly arise right in the face Of Mr..
Coxey's army of the unemployed {:
"Do they really want honest employ
ment? And have they ever been in
fact "wage earners" for any length Of
time at any particular place within
the United States or the foreign homes
from which the majority of them
cameP" To exert any influence for
good, they should be able to answer
to the man in the affirmative.
The cold wave extending from the
Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic
coast, it is predicted, will cause great
loss in certain sections both to agri-
culture and fruit growing. The win
ter east of the Mississippi was unusual,
ly mild ; so much SO, it appears, that
fruits were in bloom in some localities,
and planting of potatoes, &c, had
been done before the blzzards warned
the planters of the danger Of loosing
both their labor and seed. In our
particular section, even another week
of warm weather would have placed
our fruit in jeopardy, no doubt. The
farmers who availed themselves of the
opportunity to plow did very good
thing in thus exposing all destructive