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Pl'BI.INIIKD BY
ELWELL & BITTENEENDER
KVKUY KUIDAY SIOHMNO
Al Hlonubuig, thi. County sent of Columbia
County, 1'pnnsylvunla.
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If not piikl In advance.
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Tl'.li IOI.IMHIAN,
Hlnomsbuiy, Pa.
FRIDAY MARl M 27th 1S91.
WASHINGTON LETTES.
From our Hegular correspondent.
Washington March 23. 1891,
Mr. Harrison has so little confidence
in Secretary Blaine's ability to cope
single-handed with the wily British
diplomats in the negotiations to de
termine the details and manner of
submitting the Behrings sea difficulties
to arbitration that he will postpone and
it necessary give up entirely his pro
posed trip to the Pacific Coast in or
der to remain here until the negotia
tions are concluded. In view of the
fact that Mr. 1 larrison is very anxious
to make this trip, not only to gratify
a laudable curiosity too see a large and
important section of the country, but
to secure a Harrison delegation from
the Coast States to the next republican
national convention the willingness to
give up the trp in order to watch
Blaine speaks volumes for his fear of
"jingoism".
The statement made here last week
that Mr. Harrison aud U, S. Treasurer
Huston had made friends and that the
resignation of the latter had been with
drawn was a little off. Mr. Huston
has gone to Fortress Monroe, osten
sibly for his health, but really in a
"huff" because his resignation had not
been accepted One of his personal
friends said to-day that if Mr. Harri
son did not willingly accept his resig
nation very soon it would become
necessary for Mr. Huston to compel
him to do so willingly. He declined
to say how this could be done.
The political pressure has been too
great for him and Mr. Harrison has
promised to appoint the nine United
States Circuit Court judges during the
Congressional recess, instead of wait
ing for Congress to meet again, as he
wished to do. The number of appli
cants continues to grow at such a rate
that a facetious gentlemen remarked
to-day that the democratic party might
expect to become crowded with dis
appointed republican lawyers wnen
the appointments are announced.
There is another war in the Interior
Department, which hasn't been free of
skirmishing since the present adminis
tration came in. This time it is the
Secretary and the Indian Commission
er that have crossed swords, and it is
stated that Secretary Noble has be
come so thoroughly disgusted with the
official rottenness in the Interior de
partment that he had made up his
mind to get out when Tanner was
kicked out of the Pension Office, also
a short time ago when Land Commis
sioner Groff handed in his resignation
owing to a serious difference of opin
ion with the secretary.
It is also stated that Secretary Proc
tor intends resigning in order to de
vote himself to his private business,
but this is denied at the War depart
ment, and inasmuch as Mr. Proctor
has given a good deal more time to
his Vermont marble quarries since
entering the cabinet than to the War
department it is not probable that the
needs of his private business would
cause him to think of resignation.
Ohio politics are being a good deal
discussed just now, and the republi
cans are extremely anxious to know
just where Senator Sherman stands.
Some months ago the statement was
made in a newspaper friendly to him
and apparently with his knowledge
and consent that he intended retiring
from public life at the close of his
present Senatorial term. He has nev
er affirmed or denied the statement,
and the recent action of ex-Gov. For
aker in shying his castor into the
Senatorial ring has brought a number
of Ohio republicans skurrying to
Washington in order to find out Sher
man's position before taking sides in
what promises to be a very lively
scrimmage if Sherman concludes
again to be a candidate.
Gen. Jos. E. Johnston, the last of
the great Confederate commanders,
died here Saturday night as peace
fully as a child. He was in his eighty
second year.
The administration has not decided
to retaliate on France and Germany
for prohibiting American pork, but
Secretary Rusk is doing his level best
to have that policy adopted and he
has hopes of eventually succeeding,
but no other member of the cabinet
seems to favor retaliation.
The election by the California legis
lature of Ex-Representative Felton to
the United States Senate caused a
genuine sensation here, where the
gentleman is well-known. Although
he is a several times millionaire it was
thought that he was too miserly to
put up any large amount of money to
secure his election, but the principal
reason for surprise was his financial
views; he is an out and out cold stand
ard man. and everybody here thought
that California was for free silver coin
age. The figures are at last made up.
The Fifty-first Congress cost the peo
ple of the county just $i,ooo,ooo a
day, and during its two years of exis
tence it managed to spend about $16
for each man, woman and child in the
United States.
THE LEGISLATURE.
Special Correspondent of The Columbian.
Harrisduso, March 25, i8qi,
The first Congressional apportion
ment bill of the session was presented
simultaneously yesterday in both
house -in the Senate by Mr. Meek, of
Centre, and the I louse by Mr. Ritter,
of Lycoming. It is a Democratic
measure, and provides for ten certain
Democratic districts, sixteen certain
Republican districts, and four doubt
ful. Under this bill Philadelphia will
be given six districts 1st, 2nd, 3rd,
4th, 5th and 6th, and Allegheny three
the 22nd 23rd and 24th. The rest
of the State is apportioned as follows :
Montgomery and Lehigh are included
in the 8th district, Berks and Lebanon
the 9th, Lancaster the 10th, North
ampton and Bucks the nth, Lacka
wanna, Pike and Monroe the 12th,
Luzerne the 13th, Schuylkill and Car
bon the 1 4th, Bradford, Susquehanna,
Wyoming and Wayne the 15th, Clin
ton, Lycoming, Sullivan and Colum
bia the 16th, Northumberland, Mon
tour, Snyder, Juniata and Mifflin the
17th, Dauphin and York the 18th,
Perry, Cumberland, Adams, Frank
lin and Fulton the 19th, Huntingdon,
Bhir, Bedford and Somerset the 20th,
Westmoreland and Fayette the 21st,
Cambria, Indiana. Armstrong and
Clarion the 25th, Jefferson, Clearfield,
Centre and Elk the 26th, Tioga, Pot
ter, McKean, Forest and Cameron
the 27th, Erie and Crawford the 2Sth,
Mercer, Venango, Lawrence and But
ler the 29th, and Beaver. Washington
and Greene the 30th. The bill ap
pears to be fair, but it will meet w.th
the same fate as did the Nicholson
bill in the session of i S83. The Re
publicans will want "the whole hog,"
and do their best to give the Demo
crats as little show as porsibie.
THE GRANGERS' TAX BILL.
The Grangers' Tax bill passed the
House finally yesterday by a vote of
128 to 41. It will hardly pass the
Senate in its present shape. Those i
who pretend to know say it is crude and
full of oddities and will not be able to
stand the ordeal ol the Constitution or
the Supreme Court.
The act to provide for the semi
monthly payment of wage-workers
was postponed. The laboring classes
will receive but little favor at the
hands of the present Legislature.
THE DIRECT TAX RESOLUTION.
The resolution authorizing the Gov
ernor to receipt for the refunded di
rect tax of $1,654,000 due from the
National Government to Pennsylva
nia is yet in the Senate Committee, to
which it was referred. It is to be
hoped that it will speedily pass, for the
money will be needed by the State for
purposes) of appropriation by the pres
ent legislature to some of the large
objects before it, including the erec
tion of a new State Library, the im
provement of the Capitol, increased
accommodations for the insane, a prop
er display of Pennsylvania products at
the Columbia Exposition t Chicago,
and Ballot Reform. The effort to
have the money devoted to the pay
ment of the Border Raid claims will
not receive much consideration, as
there has been 1 claim made on the
National Government by the friends
of this measure, who sought and ob
tained the State's approval of those
claims, and had the endorsement con
firmed by the appointment two years
ago of a commission to urge them up
on Cdngress
A NEW STATE LIBRARY.
The Legislative Commission have
determi :ed to ask for the erection of
a new Duilding for the State Library,
and also the improvement of the old
Capitol, and for this purpose a bill aj
propriating $500,000 for the erection
of the former and $125,000 for the
improvement of the latter has been
introduced in both houses. The
Executive Department will have spa
cious apartments in the new building.
It will be erected just south of the
Department of Internal Affairs. This
disposes, for the present at least, of a
new Capitol building. The fact is
none is needed, and the hue and cry
for it is to help spoilsmen, placemen
and the camp followers generally of
the Republican party. With the im
provements suggested to the building,'
it will do for all practical purposes for
years to come.
BILLS FOR WORKING PEOPLE.
Mr. Raphser, the Democratic Sena
tor from Carbon, has presented a bill
to prevent young or inexperienced per
sons from being employed by railroad
or transportation companies in hauling
or delivering train orders, and provid
ing a penalty for its violation ; also, to
provide for the refunding of all moneys
to employees by persons or corpora
tions who have deducted any part or
portion of such employees' wages for
the purpose of accumulating a benefi
cial fund, in case of sicknesss or acci
dent, for such employees.
. . WHAT BOROUGHS MAY DO.
A bill passed the Senate finallu
authorizing the burgesses and councils
of all incorporated boroughs to widen
and deepen streams and water courses
running through said boroughs, and to
erect dykes and embankments along
the same, and to empower the burgesses
and councils to enter upon private
property on and along such streams
and water courses for the purpose of
procuring material for such work,
and to provide for the payment of the
expenses thereof.
The Senate has also passed finally a
bill to prohibit the depositing of pub
lic moneys with certain unincorporat
ed banks and bankers by county, city,
borough, township and schools treas
urers and delinquent tax collectors.
FAVORABLY REPORTED.
The Franklin bill, which passed the
House, reducing the Liquor license
tax from $500 to $300, and permitting
applicants to get bondsmen outside of
the wards or townships in which their
places of business may be located,
was favorably reported in the Senate
last evening.
court criers' compensation.
Your Representative, Mr. Tewks-
berry, introduced a bill in the House
yesterday fixing the compensation of
court criers at not more than $1000
per annum.
Columbia.
WHO "THE LIAR" WAS.
To Mr. Depew's declaration that
'the democratic victory last vrar
the triumph of the liar in politics,' the
Chicago Tribune, the leading Repub
lican newspaper at the West, makes a
rejoiner.
Notinc Mr. Denew s failure to tpll
who did the lying, the Tribune sup
plies the omission. "Those per
sons, it says, "who were most eaeer
in their support of the McKinley Bill,
and especially of its worst featnrrs.
such as the increased duties on wool
and woolens, said that the effect of
their bill would be to increase watms
The men working in industries which
it is auegea were poorly protected
would get better pay, it was said. The
opening of the new factories would, it
was asserted, give employment at
good pay to men who were idle
then."
These were the nromises. Hnw
have they been kept ? The Tribune
tells in saying that
the tendency of waces has been
downward rather than upward since
the bill passed The worki lifrmen in
the factories felt that they were being
iieu 10 wnen mey were tola that the
McKinley Bill would raise their waae
and they voted against the men who
tnea to palm off the stuff on them.
The next victims of the camnaitm
liar are designated as the farmers nf
the States east of the Missouri, who
were told that the higher duties on the
imported mixing wools would increase
the demand for and the price of their
nne wpoi. says the Tribune:
They are eettincr less for their clin
than in July, 1889, and the latest Bos-
- . : . ti ...
mil icjwh . mere is no increase
in the demand for Michigan extra
fleece. Manufacturers are not running
on these wools, and will pay more for
Montana and Wyoming wool" "The
demand for Australian wool has been
active and the sales have been large,"
This is not what Julius Caesar Burrows
promised the wool-?rowers of Mirhi.
ganlist Fall
Another he not Rnecifird hv tMa
Republican iournal is the one iusr re
peated by Mr. McKinley at Rochester
mat me loreigner pays the duty for
the privilege of selling us his onnAs
The "shopping women," as Mr. Reed
described them, discovered the false
hood very quickly. Mr. Depew spoke
truly; but was not suflicienty explicit.
A newspaper of his own party has de
scribed who the "liar in politics" was.
rrorta.
Dyspepsia's victims are numhered
by thousands So are the people who
have been restored to health by Hood's
Sarsaparilla.
IF YOU ARE
CARPET, ill ATT IJVC,
m
or OIL CJLOTH,
YOU WILL FIND A NICE LINE AT
W. BL BMOWIEM'S
2nd Door above Court Ilouse. J
A new lot of Window Curtains received this week.
ALEXANDER BROTHERS & CO.
DEALERS IN
Cigars, Tobacco. Candies, Fruits and Nuts
SOLE AGENTS FOR
Henry Maillard's Fine Candies. . Fresh Every Week.
:feitx?y. Gooes a.' Specialty,
SOLE AGENTS FOR
F. F. Adams & Co's Fine
$ Bole agents (or the
Henry Clay, Londres, Normal, Indian Princess, Samson, Silver Ash
THOMAS GORREY.
CDKTRACTOR at MM.
Plans and Estimates on al
kinds of buildiivjs. Repairing
and carpenter work promptly
attended to.
Dealer in Builder's Supplies.
Inside Hardwood finishes a
specialty.
Persons of limited means who
desire to build can pay part and
secure balance by mortgages
MKillip Bro's.
Photographers.
Only t(he best
work done. Fin
est effects in
light, and shade;
negatives re
touched and
modeled for sup-
erior finish.
copying, view
ing and life size
crayons.
Over H. J. ClarK &
9011 h store.
BLOOMSBURG.
W. H. BROOKE & CO.
Have you decided having
your home papered this
Spring? Make un vmir minrl
to do it, then come and Took
over our 6tock; select your
papers and we will give you
estimates in the piece or on the
wan.
Our line is complete in de-
nr. 1 .1 .
taw. ve nave garnered the
choicest designs and colorings
from the finest makers and can
give your walls a treatment to
produce any desired effect.
The designs this season are
made to match in color and
figure, side, ceilings, and friezes.
Contrasts are pleasing not
severe, though rich when col
ors are properly combined.
We have just opened a fine
line of fringed window curtains
they are correct in color and
right in price.
Then too we have the goods
in piece and make curtains to
fit auy windows; you select
the goods, we make the cur
tains and put them on the win
dows. Come and examine our
goods and get our prices.
W. H. BROOKE & CO.
WAITED
SilESMIN teSiUnr
NUESSSI STOCK.
All goods warranted nrst-class. Permanent
profitable position tor the right man. Cash paid
weekly. No experience necossary. Write for
terms, giving age and references. J. L. Yatbi,
Nurserymen, Uochester, N. Y.
IN NEED OF
Cut Chewing Tobacco
following brands ol Cigars:
Bloomsburg, Pa. ; ,
"The People's Store."
W. C. FRICK&CO.,
DANVILLE, PA.,
WE AKE GETTING INGOUD SHAPE ONCE MORE.
What a transformation has taken place in a few short
months, as you enter the big swinging doors on Mill street you
can scarcely realize that the inconvinent old building where
this business grew from a little corner Store into its present
great proportions, and has given place to the beautiful struc
ture in which the Customers find themselves Our floor space
is more than trebled.
All the old department will be found greatly enlarged and
wonderfully improved, the stock more comprehensive, the con
venience for shopping complete in every detail.
The mellow light-which falls on all the Counters is a sub
ject of general comment. Nothing is in the dark, and the
arrangement of the house is such that the characterestic fea
ture's of the difierent departments are every where disting
uishable. The gloomy divisions and obstructions of the old building
which previously stood here, have been superceded by a
structure full of daylight and attractive Merchandise.
This week we will talk on
CARPETS
We claim to have the finest line of Carpets ever shown iu
this section of the State. The
are bright-and cheerful, aud best of all the prices are down
to the very lowest. We show a beautiful line of Ingrain Car
pets at 20 cents a yard, just as good as a great many that are
sold by other dealers at 40 cents.
Ave have better erodes at
Tapestries, at 50; 02; 85;
11.00 grade.
Body Brussels in over fifty different-patterns all new styles
borders to match, price $1.25 jier yard.
Velvet Carpets at $1.00 and $1.25 with or without borders
to match, an especial good value for the money.
Kag Garnets 6.v, 4,5; and 48 cents.
Floor Oil Cloths These prices are for the best goods.
30 inches wide 40; 45; and 50 cents per yard.
54
" 00; Oo; and 70 " " "
" $1.00; per yard.
"THE PEOPLE'S STORE"
Wm. C FRICK & CO.,
Danville Penna.
7'
MAKE A WOTE OF OT
We begin the
Marking Down all
WINTER CLOTHING.
ST0r,H COATS AT COST.
OVERCOAT at COST.
CHILDREN AND BOYS,
OLD AND YOUNG,
CAN BUY CHEAPER THAN EVER AT
LOWEN BERG'S
POPULAR CLOTHING STOBE.
CLOSING OUT GOLD PENS AND PEN
CILS AT COST, at
CT- (2k WELLS.'
Bring Your Watch,
work to J.
FREE OF CHARGE
COLUMBIAN BUILDING.
Patterns are all new. the colors
lib; 4o; 58; Co; 72; and 75 cents.
and $1.00. borders to match the
New Year by
Clock, and Jewelry
G. WELLS.
EYES FITTED FOR GLASSES
AT
J. G. WELLS