Highest of all in Leavening Tower. Latest U. S. Gov't Report. ABSOLUTELY PURE :nu coiAJMiiiArsi. Entered at the I'imt. onlep Ht. llloninsburK 8 ntl class mutter, March 1. isss. IJ iX)OMSl)WOrA. FRttu. J A .SUA R Yia",i TO SUBSCRIBERS OUT OF THE COUNTY. Notice is hereby giv en to all subscribers re siding outside of the county, that owing to the fact that we have to pay postage on their pa pers, the price will be $1.25 a year strictly in advance, from and af ter January 1st, 1892. 1-1-4. You cant afford to miss Wendlings famous lecture, "Is death the end," a reply to Col. Robert Ingersol that all should hear. He sure to get tickets at Dentler s or Brooke s. The Woman's Christian Temper ance Union will hold their next meet ing at Mrs. Frymire's on Tues. Jan, 26, at three o clock. A full attend ance is desired. 15v Order ok Committk.e. Carbolic acid taken from the house hold medical closet in the dark by mistake has caused another death. This time Police Justice Loan, of Baltimore, is the victim. When will the public learn that deadly drugs and poisons cannot be left about the house with impunity ? This is the third death of this character within a few weeks. Pointer For Advt-rt'.sars- M. M. Gillam, the advertising man ager for John Wanamaker gives the following advice to advertiscis in 1'rintera1 Ink of January 6; "Whether big or little, the advertisement should be persistent. Every day is the right rule for a general business and chang ed every day. Hold up one phase or -another of it all the time. Make the readers look to your announcements as they look to news. Don't expect them to always carefully read what you say. They skip half the locals and elegrams, maybe - all but the head lines. You can be sure of a glance, at least if you deserve it. Fill the advertisement so full of hooks that the glancer is likely to get caught. And work for the women. That's the secret 01 tne greatest possible success general merchandising " in LIGHT3TREET. Rev. A. H. Irvin, Presiding F.lder of Lewisburg District Evangelical Church, held quarterly meeting serv ices here Saturday and Sunday last, staying till Wednesday. Among the people xho attended the funeral of Geo. Pugh we noticed his father from Lewistown, Mr Thos. Scott and lady of Tyrone, Mr. Scott and Mrs. Mitchell of Johnston. S. A. White, agent for the B. &. S. R. R. Co. at Jamison City, came home sick one day last week, and is now confined to his bed. Mrs. Martha Brown died at the residence of her son-in law, R. Buck waiter, on Thursday of last week, aged 86 years. J. M. Shew has so far recovered from an attack of La Grippe as to be out again. Mrs. Chas. Rink and Mrs Jos. Wardin, are lying very ill at present writing. Mrs. J. J. Keller is 011 the sick list. The colored minstrel show of home talent on Saturday niijht was quite a success, gotten up by the P. (). S. of A., proceeds to be used in furnishing the hall. Rev. Meudenhall preached in the M E. Church on Monday evening, having been called here by the death cf his sister, Mrs, Martha Brown. Quite a number of people in town are having symptoms of La Grippe. Mr. ami Mrs. Wesley Betz lost their -baby through an attack of Grippe. Mrs. Will Jacoby of Scranton visit visited her husband's parents Tuesday. Mrs. J. Shollenberger of Almedia visited Mrs. A. F. Terwilliger on Tues day. Mr. and Mr. Mendenhall of llughes ville visited Mr. and Mrs. E A. Brown Monday. Children Cry fop Pitcher's Castorla. When Baby u tick, w er her Caatorla, When aha wu a Child, she cried (or Cm tori, Whw sha tMotmt KJm, the clunf to Oattorte, WMth had QUldrib rare tbemCaatorla. Pomler J. If. Njaize has moved his law and insurance offices to Lockards building, corner Main and Centre streets, sec ond floor. 1 15-4W. The New York Novelty Store is closing out all woolen goods, such as ladies and mens underwear; ladies, mens' and misses' wool hose, mens' heavy gloves ; blankets and comforts. These eoods must all hi sold this month, at cost and below. x-i5-2t. Three Stops to a Ecaffold. I Printed lit the re piesl of the W. C T. t ...i . . 1 nree 01 my neighbors lay dead on Dec 3rd, which was a strange and rare coincidence in more ways than one. I'he first case was a member of a church, who had been a Sunday School teacher for more than twenty years, lie was an exemplary citizen, and voted the Republican ticket The second neighbor was Jacob Vall mer, a saloon keeper. I Ie kepi about as orderly a tavern as any other It eenaed saloonkeeper, when alive, and did a thriving business and was rapidly gelling rich. His house was a great resort, and pitchers and buck ets filled with beer could be seen coin mg and going, in tne nanus 01 men and women from dawn to midnight. I he business was so important that it is alleged that one of his neighbors, a clerk in one of the courts, used his in side influence to hive the license transferred to the widow a few hours after the owner's death. The third neighbor to leave the world was John McManus, who was hung that morn- : r,. 1 i 1 i -w- ing lor murder. Bad thoutm Mc Manus was, he was the natural out come of the saloon traffic. He was born in the slums where the '.army of taill. never gees. He knew nothin but vice; it was all around him, and he grew up with it. The licensed saloon stared him in the face from every side, and it was as easy for him to tan into their open doors as it is for a young man raised on Walnut street to enter the doors of the most refined society. As he walked to the scaffold, carrying the uplifted crucifix in his hand, the emblem of a Cruci fied Redeemer who dieJ for John Ale Mantis, as well as for the Rev. Theo (lore Cuyler, D. I)., he protested at every step of that awful march, from the cell down to the gallows, that he was drunk when he committed th crime. He was drunk, men and women of the land, and he got drunk in a licensed saloon, licensed the vote of members of Christian churches. These were my three neighbors who lay dead in one day. neither of them over two hundred yards from me. Here lay the church man who voted the licensed ticket Here lay the saloon keeper who took advantage ot the license, which was granted because the churchman voted that it should be granted. Las ly, there was John McManus, the victim of the licensed saloon, who, while crazed with licensed rum, committed a murder and then in turn was legally murdered by the State. And there was another strange thing about it r.acn one ol them had reliyrious cere monies over their ashes. What think you of my three neighbors? Does not the church member, the saloon keeper, and the victim stand in close relation in this peculiar instance ? Have we not here the licensed voter, the licensed saloon-keeper and the licensed saloon victim ? You've tried Dr. Tierce's Favorite Prescription have you and you're dis appointed. The results are not im mediate. And did you expect the disease of years to disappear in a week Put a pinch of time in every dose. You I would not call the mil!; poor because the cream doesn't rise in an lnur? I If there's no water in it the cream is ; sure to rise. If there's a possible cure, 1 Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is sure to effect it, if given a fair trial. You get the one dollar it costs back again it it don t benefit or cure you. We wish we could give you the makers' confidence. They show it by giving the money back again, in all cases not benefited, and it'd surprise you to know now lew dollars are needed to Keep the refund. up Mild, gentle, soothing and healing is Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. Cures the worst cases permanently. No ex perimenting. It's 1 Old Reliable." Twenty-five years of success. Send in your orders now for town ship election tickets. We will send them by mail to any address in the county, not less than 100 to be order ed. Cash must accompany the order j in every case Stamps will be re , ceived. Names of candidates printed in at 50 cents a hundred. With blanks to write names in, 25 cents per 100. tf. KOTIOE. The members of the Democratic Standing Committee of the townships (if Blcomsburg, Siolt, Greenwood and Sugarloaf, complying "The Bloom Poor District," are requested to meet at the Court House, in the Town of Uloomsburg, on Saturday, January 23, 1 Sf)2, nt 2 ociokP. M., lor the pur po::C ol placing in nomination two persons as Poor Directors of said dis trict. Jno. R. Townsknd, I. II. Mkrckk, Secy. Co. Chairman. Wanted. Two good pants maker?. Steady work. Apply at I.owenbcrgV, Bloomsbuig, Pa. The firm of Allen& Armstrong has been dissolved. Mr. Allen retiring. John Armstrong will continue the busi ness at the old stand. Because of the absence of Rev. William T. Auman there will be no preaching in the Reformed church next Lord s day. Catarrh is not a local but a consti tutional disease, and requires a consti tutional remedy like Hood's Sarsap arilla to effect a cure. Mrs. Dr. Kirby(Kuhn) of Mauch Chunk, on Saturday, January 16, gave birth to twin children, both girls, the two weighing about eleven pounds. The family is all doing well. Mrs. Kate Sheep, had an attack of La Grippe which kept her housed about two weeks. Wednesday she had a tooth drawn from which she took cold and La Grippe again made its appearance. She is confined to her bed. The Prohibitionists of Columbia county will hold a convention in Har man's Hall, Orangeville, Saturday Jan. 23, at 10 o'cloc k a. m. State Chairman, II. I). Patton will be pres ent. Members of the W. C. T. U and ail friends of temperance and pro hibition are invited to be present. W. A. Pitts, County Chairman. I'he Berwick F nr Association h their annual meeting last week Tuesday ...... r .. i- and elected tne touowtng directors I. C. Sponenberj;, A. E. Shuman, G L. Regan, J. W. Evans, Daniel Reedy S. K. Heller, M. 11. Rittenhouse, O F. Ferris, J. H. Eck, J. H. Davenport In the meeting of the Board Dr, Reagan was elected president ; C). I Ferris, vice president ; J. W. Evans, secretary : Daniel Reedy, treasurer, The F'air is in good hands for the coming year and it is hoped they will make it a success. For burns and wounds we would re comend Salvation Oil. All dealers sell it at 25 cents. Many cases have come under our notice where a single bottle of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup relieved a sufferer from a severe cough, which had been treated for months by competent physicians. 25 c. Hon. George R Wendling will give his world renowned lecture, 'Is death the end", at the Opera House next Tuesday evening January 26th. Don't fail to hear him. Note what the lead ing newspapers say of him : Chicago Tribune. "An orator of great power." Chicago Inter Ocean. "Able, elo quent and telling." Chicago Times. "Gifts of high order." Cincinnati Gazelle. "Height of genuine eloquence." Cleveland Ledger. "Rare elo quence." Jjtroit Free I'rts "Tin iilin eloquence, at Dentler's Lofty thought." Only 50 cts Tickets Y.M- C A U0TS3- Prayer, Praise and Promise meeting. next Sunday afternoon at 2:50 in Y, M. C. A., Rooms. A hearty Invita tion is extended to you to be present A Business Men s Prayer meeting every day at noon, for thirty minutes. Come. uibie class every I iuirsday evening at S o'clock. You are invited to join. A meeting for coiueciation and Prayer every Saturday niiiht at S o c:oc.;. Don t forget the noonday Prayer meeting lor Business Men, every day at: 1 2 o cioct in the Y .M. C. A. Hall. Attention! liusiness men, every day at 12 o'clock noon-d.iy Prayer meeting tor you, in V. M. L. A. Rooms. Come. t'NION llini.E CLASS Rev. D. M. Stearns, the noted Bible reader, of Scranton, Pa., will meet tho-e desiring the formation of a Un ion Bible clas, next Friday, January 22nd at 4 p. m , iu the Y. I. C, A. Rooms. The securing of Mr; Stearns permanently will depend largely the attendance at this meeting. upon FOB SALE- A good established butcher busi ness and all fixtures, including good convenient slaughter house, and hog pen, also fine large cooling room, just new. Mrs. C. W. Brown, Blojmsburg, Pa. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castorla. Tho Oouutry Nwnpapcr 1 As it Was, end As It Is, Dr. Chapin said, more than a gene ration ago, that any man who could cross Broadwav at Fulton street had brains enough for the making of a country editor. This was not so se vere a disparagement of the country editor as it seems on the face of the allegation to be. For it really did re quire, and does require now, no small amount of gray cerebral matter to per form the feat mentioned. And when one remembers that Dr. Chapin was more than a little myopic, and from detective vision could not be sure some truck or express wagon shouldn't hit him before he touched the oppo site curbstone, it is easy to under stand that,the gravamen of the com parison was not meant to rest heavily upon the editor. I am reminded of this humorous and forcible hyperbole when I con template for a moment the changes which have come over rural journal ism in but little more than a genera tion of time. The newspaper of the early boy hood of some men still living was al most always issued at the county scat, where there were usually two one representative of each of the two great parties. It was always a weekly, and such copies as were not sent out by the mail stage were dispatched by a horseback rider, or by a market and freight wagon often that ran, per haps, twenty-five or thirty miles over the country to and from the chief town or county seat. It was a great event in those days when the paper arrived in the back town, for it gave the bucolic world its hebdomadal peep into the larger world, whose affairs were henceforth to go to sleep again from run! notice until the next week's issue renewed the history. Without 1 telegraph, without the railway even with exchanges equally as destitute of stirring topics as his own sheet must perforce be, the country editor real iy needed 110 little wit to print so. readable a sneet as he often did What he hail to depend on mainly was, 01 course, selected "miscellany It he wielded the scissors well, and could adapt and quote from the writ ' f nit. i my ui umers wiiu propriety, he was sure of no little local fame, and often received a generous support. Im inmani court uoings, marriages and deaths, and an occasional hanging, maoe up me local news; and steamer arrival from Europe, casuali- ties and crimes, occasional election returns, and the proceedings of Cong- gress and 111c state Legislature, with me rresicient s and uovernor s mess- sages, afforded the topics of general interest. Over the foreign news was usually put the picture of a sailing vessel ; and over a few stickfuls of any specially new and important such as the latest election returns, for instance might be noticed the galloping horse and rider, with a long scroll bearing some legend, and a numbered mile post, near, supposed to be Hying rear ward. I here was an occasional traveler's letter, to be sure, whose writer was taking a stage journey, perhaps, of fifty or seventy-five miles, and who reported the small incidents theteof with as much seriousness and wonder as now accompany Stanley's accounts of African exploration or Stevens' bi cycle trip around the world. From some little town or post-oflice hamlet there were occasional biief letters signed "Justitia," "Vindex," "lunius ," or "Spectator," not giving any special local news, but discussing some governmental affair of the nation, State or county in highly roundsd classical or Addisonian periods. Quite often these letters were full of Jeffer soman or Federal sentiments, with quotations from the leaders of these two currents of thought ; and not sel dom they were forcibly and gracefully written. liiuanoteo place in the country 11 . .41 . 1 weekly 01 long ago was the Poet s Lorn er, or "The Muse" as it was sometimes termed. Only the other day I was looking over a number of bound vol times of two or three country weeklies from fifty to seventy-five years old, and was surprised at the brightness of some of this verse. It was both original and selected the latter invariably eood. and the former occasionally ol extreme or notable merit. Why shouldn't it havebjen? Here Whittier first es sayed to sing, and here Bryant, I lolmes, Longfellow and others who have achieved fame tried their maiden flights. Whittier was a blushing boy when the postman or paper rider threw the paper containing his first effusion over the fence, where he was at work with his father, but he did not dare to say that he had left the farm or the furrow momentarily out of thought for so frivolous a business as t'.is. Few readers imagined that that week's issue of a country paper bore to them the eginmng of a great and endeared reputation. 1 he improvement of the printing press and the extension of the railroad, with the telegraph soon to follow. transformed many things the conntry newspaper along with the rest. The consequent multiplicity of events com pelled conciseness and evolved the paragraphist. The editor could no onger enlighten his little town and vic inage by editorials a column long ; he was now also obliged, unless the ca-e was extraor dinary, to cudgel the vil lainous editor of the scurvy paper un the stieet, in paragraphs only. So much news came that cither must be boiled down or omitted that whole col umns of itenu, making fiom one or two lines only, to not more than eight or ten, were a weekly necessity. This involved work, and developed tact and taste. I don't think the small para graph, as aii institution, was observa ble in country papers much over forty years ago; but Tiow well it has grown since everybody sees. It has played its part admirably and represents the American spirit as few things do s for in the pres of no other country do ge nius aud wit coruscate and puncture as they do here. Of course, it is not in the country paper alone that such brevity and sententiotisness are com mon; but it has helped along and prof ted by these traits. George I). Prentice, the famous Kentucky editor, was an adept and pioneer in making short paragraphs. I think a book of them was once pub lished from his paper. When his neigh bor across the street said, in a political squib, that "Our party knows how the land lies on this question." 'Yes,' said Prentice, "and the land knows how your party lien on this question." Whether in repartee or in direct hu mor, he said some of the most notably smart things that have ever appeared in newspapers. But to quote further from them would lead us too far. Next to the short paragraph the most distinctive trait of the modern country paper is its omnium gatherum of local news. It now has hardly less, and often more, than a single page of township and adjacent village corres pondence. It is true, some of this is trivial, but many of the writers of it live merely on a country cross road, and perhaps the paper they receive can boast for its centre little more than a double cross-road hamlet. Yet from every source the readers get what they want. The are told all that happens and what everyone is doing ; that Far- mer Jones has put up a new horse- oiock, and Merchant smith has paint - ed his door yard fence and repaired the front gate. No fish are too small for the local net, and the facility with which little tidbits of gossip are served up is really quite attractive. The old country paper was more serious and solemn. It rarely printed the most of people's names more than Queen Victoria's excessive prostra twice when they married and when tion at the death of her favorite grand they died. To-day nobody's name is son, Prince Albert Victor, is said by too obscure to escape mention at no , London gossip, to be largely due to inconsiderable intervals. The harm-: the fact that the heir to the throne less gossip which thus goes about is and Princess May desired hei sanction not only what everyone wishes to read, , to their engagement and early marriage uui 11 is macic necessaiy uy me inva-1 uiree or iour years ago, wnicn sne re sion of the metropolitan weekly, which fused to give at the time. If the con- is sold at half the country papers price. The local field the local paper can hold, and its prominence is there fore justified. I do not believe the average country paper now is really so much better than the average one fifty years ago. It is different because it must be. It is made to fit a different environment, and to cater to different needs. Once the rural reader took or.ly one paper. Now he takes several a daily paper and specialized ones, and the maga zines besides. You can leave many tlvngs out of the country paper to-day, and they will not be missed. But the ancient editor had a good deal of the j magazine's function as well as that cf I the metropolitan daily's to fulfill. The ! nest ot tne country papers that our fathers read were prime forces in their day, and the editor then was a great man, and identified with his sheet as no editor can be now. He was a good giver and taker of blows, and they were not of velvet. His weekly argu ment with the other editor near at hand was writing of the utmost life and vascularity. 'l'was the condi ment for the weekly feast, and though the editorial debate exists to day. to what dimensions it has shrunk as a field of human interest. To see how good the old time papers were, look in any well-selected scrap-book of the period in which they existed. Th country paper, tnen at its best, as it is now, was one of the pleasantest ex pressions of the human mind. Joel Jienton in Printers' Ink. All who are troubled with consump tion will find a safe, sure, and speedy relief in Ayers Pills. Unlike most other cathartics, these pills strengthen the stomach, liver, and bowels, and re store the organs to normal and regular action. NOTICE- Notice is hereby given that I have purchased from J. N. Stephens, of lienton township, Columbia county, Pa., the following personal property, to-wit : 2 gray horses, a cows, 3 young heifers, 3 harnesses, 1 spring wagon. big wagon, 2 plows, 2 harrows, 1 cultivator, 1 hay rake, 1 mower, 1 sheep, two pigs, all the grain in the granary, corn in cribs, grain in the ground, and hay. I have left the same in the possession of the said J. N. Stephens during my pleasure, and persons are cautioned against inter fering with them in any way. J. M. Comstock, iw. Central, Pa. Good and Reliable- A good and Teliable family medicine is Sulphur Bitters. Kvery Spring for six years I have been troubled with boils. Since I began using Sulphur 1 Hitters, I have not had a single one. You can rely on Sulphur Hitters every-time.-iiior Weekly New. i-jj-2t. 99 Pure. THE BEST FOR EVERY PURPOSE. A HEAVY PORKER RhorMcIIenry & Son, butchered 3t fat hogs at their distillery last Tues day. One of the lot weighed 617s. It was of the Chester white stock 2 years old, raised by Mr. Hugh Fair man of Greenwood. Best iodides and vegetable altera tives make Ayer's Sarsaparilla the best blood medicine. Rich Costumes- The costumes worn by the O'Flynn in Mexico Company are said to have cost over two thousand dollars. They are gorgeous. This great company will appear at the Bloomsburg Opera House on Monday, Jan. 25th. Tick ets now on sale at Dentler's Boot anc". Shoe store. For Collector of Greenwood. As the undersigned is not able to get out, he desires to say to the people that he will be candidate lor collector of taxes at the coming elec- : non. D. S. Patterson. "Master, your best horse won't eat anything." "Give him at once three tablespoonfulls of Bull's Head Horse and Cattle Powder in a warm mask sent had not been withheld the Princess would have something left to console her at the deathbed ook's Cottoa M COMPOUND. A repent discovery by an 0M physician. xuotr.ifnllv if monthly by tlujumntls of la ate, la the only peifoeMv Hare and reliable mitllelae dlSl'OVurpll. Hpwnm nf un principled UrUClTlStS Who Offer InfMi-lnr molU- i lnes In p'.ace ot this. AhIc for Cook s Cotton Hoot i on pound, tak no substitute, or lndiwe 1 and S cents In postage In letter, and we will (tend, sealed, by return mall. Full sealed par ticulars In plain envelope, to ladles onlyTs stumps. Address Poni Lilt company, - . . . N.?: 8 F's'iPr Block, Detmlt, Mien. tP-Sold In Hlooiniburg by Voyer Bros., .1. B. Mercer, c. A. Klelm, (. A. McKelvy and aU re sponsible druggists everywhere. BUSINESS LOCALS. Suits for men, suits for boys, and pretty little suits for child ren at D. Lowenberg's. AUAIlIAN I ilAYEH. "0 Lord, lekind to the sick and poor; than luut done enovijh for the tiik and luul.'hj, and the havity do md need thve.' The Vuliuy do not nets! Cactus ninoUCiirc, but those who ore suffering from i-IruiikiiIsiii, t -lit, IhiIIs. carbuncles, ulcers, and tho thousand ills 1 7 scrofula and Hjieeillc disease, need the kindness of lToviilenoe to help ihem bear their troubles, aud Cactus Wood Cure to cure their diseases. Hold by U. A. McKelvy, Dugrgtst, Bloomsburs 10. OFFICE TO BENT- A room on second floor of Colum bian building, steam heat, water on same floor, electric light if desired. Apply to Geo. II. Elwell. tf. Highest cash prices paid for Hides and tallow at A. Solleder's Leather store. i2-n-2m. Glasses fitted free of charge at J. G. Wells.' All work guaranteed. A lanre stock of over coats for men, boys and D. Lowenberg's, children at THE MARKETS. 1SI.OOMSHURG MARKETS. COKHEfTED WEEKLY. HKTAIL PHICES. Mutter per lb f .v Rpg per dozen . .VI Lard per lb .10 Ham per pound 14 Pork, whole, per pound 05 to .tts Beef, quarter, per pound 08 to .08 Wheat per bushel 1.10 .58 St 8.M 6.00 15.00 .B0 8 00 .10 l.TS .01 .10 UK oats " " Iiye " Buckwheat flour per 100. Wheat Hour per bbl 1 1 ay per ton Potatoes per bushel Shelled coi'D per bushel Corn meal cwt.. lb.... cwt., lb... lb.. lb.. Hide meat Chop Tallow Culclcons Turkey Coil pjr ton, Nj. 0..
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