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THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
olumbian.
BSTABLISUKD IStta.
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KSTABulSHKD IK). CONSOL1DA1 ED lBfi.
VBL181IE1 SVKKY FRIDAY MOKNINU
(A niooms)iirif, the county sent of Columbia
county, ronnsylvaD'u.
CiBO. V.. EL. WELL KlilTOB.
I. J. JAMISON, AsSWTAHT EMTOB.
GEO. C. HOAN, Foitimx.
Tr; lnstde the county, 91.00 a yeurln ail
vance; 91.50 If not paid la advance Outside
the county, f i. a year, strictly In advance.
AH commumcat Ions filiould t.c addressed to
THK COMJMBMJf,
Bloomsburg, Pa.
FRIDAY, AUGUST lo, 1894.
THE DEMOCRATIC) STATE TICKET.
FOR GOVERNOR,
WILLIAM M. SINGERLY,
of Philadelphia.
FOR LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR,
JOHN' S. RILLING,
of Erie.
FOR AUDITOR-GENERAL,
DAVID F. MAGEE,
of Lancaster.
FOR SFCRFTARV OK INTERNAL AFFAIRS,
V. W. GREENLAND,
of Clarion.
FOR CONGRESS-AT-LARGE,
JOSEPH C. BUCIIER,
of Union.
HANNIBAL K. SLOAN,
of Indiana.
The Senate Investigating Commit
tee proposes to white-wash the sugar
coated Senators.
John L. Leisenring has been nomi
nated for congress by the Luzerne
county Republicans.
The newspapers of both parties
show that the people are with Mr,
Cleveland, but we believe the Senate
is so constituted that the Senate bill
is likely to be accepted, passed and
approved by the President.
Next to the knowledge of waste
occasioned by our strikes the sover
eign power has lately been given some
healthful and invigorating lessons in
false political economy. Or we might
render it Detter pernaps by saying
political false economy.
There seems to be a prevailing
opinion already abroad, whether
right or. wrong, that the riatural in
stinct of the Chinaman leads him to
prefer peace to war and therefore he
is very apt to get out of a fight just
as soon as his officers will allow it or
make it possible. In other words
is claimed that the Chinese only right
well when they have the advantage,
We shall know more about the
Chinese now, in war than we ever
should have known in peace.
The original Wilson bill was
moderate tanti measure. It was con
siderably more moderate when
went to trie senate, and alter revision
by the Finance Committee of the Sen
ate it was made more moderate. In
running the gauntlet between the
House and Senate moderation has
struck the bill right and left, and front
and rear, until it is said to be the es
sence of moderation. And yet the
only thing in the way of its speedy
passage is the want ot more modera
tion in the interest of the favored and
powerful classes.
no agreement yet in sight is
the word from Washington concerning
the tariff reformation demanded by
the pepple and promised in good
faith at least by President Cleveland.
The other promises made were not in
such good faith, it seems. They were
made as usual to cover the election.
Voters will do well to spot the treach
erous Representative and Senator.
Even proud, rich, and vain Senators
can be reached indirectly. Look them
up close and sharp. That's our privi
lege and our duty. Its considerable
power when rightly used.
The recent election in Alabama
was conducted under the Sayer elec
tion law. It is said to be a secret and
satisfactory form of voting, and that
it is quite similar to the popular
Australian system adopted by many
of the northern States states that
have grown weary of having the so
called secret ballot made public when
ever it suits the convenience of the
old election boards. The secret ballot,
whatever name or system may be
adopted, is the only ballot that the
sovereign power should tolerate, and
the only one that is safe or fair for
the workman who differs politically
and religiously, perhaps with his em
ployer. Alabama Has Gone Democratic
Under ordinary conditions it would
be no thrilling news to report a Demo
cratic victory in Alabama. But to re
port Democratic gains in Alabama un
der prevailing political conditions and
circumstances means a great deal to
the discouragement of those who had
hoped otherwise, because of Alabama's
iron interests likely to be affected by
the tariff reformation striven for, and
which contemplates free iron and
ccal ultimately.
THE LAST KICK
The congressional conferees are still
at loggerheads over the coal and iron
ore schedules at the date of this writ-
ing. The Senate representing the coal
and iron combine and the House rep
resenting the people at large are see
sawing juit as they have been from the
cry start of attempted tanil reforma-
tion.
The only encouragement the Senate
now gives the House conferees is that
they are endeavoring to get the con
sent of the rich men comprising the
coil and iron combines (along with
their own reluctant consent) to an easy
sliding scale which they have proposed.
Its a kind of a five years grace scale
that is not given other industries. If
our Senatorial statesmen cannot beg
the combine to accept the easy terms
of this proposed scale, agreement is ot
course impossible. Why? Why be
cause, forsooth, the combines own the
Senators, brains, body and boots as
for their souls, it is quite possible that
the devil has them safely corraled.
Senatorial fear of popular oppro
brium likely to result in jeopardizing
their own return to office makes our
proud Senators poor, miserable beg
gars from the combines upon the one
hand and from the mass ot people
upon the other. But they are more to
be condemned than pitied for the sad
political fix they have got themselves
into.
Now, while the House still insists
that the combine's coal and iron shall
be as free as the farmer's wool is, the
Senate insists on five years1 grace and
a sliding scale for our coal and iron
magnates. This is the difference and
the only difference now between the
House and Senate, between the repre
sentatives of the masses and the rep
resentatives of the classes.
If the combine back of the Senate
will consent to the easy sliding scale
their generous and sympathetic sena
torial servants have found it policy to
fix up for them, all will yet be well, it
may be : but otherwise the seesaw may
continue indefinitely.
The easy sliding scale referred to is
neither a radical nor a rapid slide to
ward free trade, and it seems to beat
no concession whatever upon the part
of the Senate and the coal and iron
combines. The terms of the com
promising slide is as follows :
" Under this scale the duty or pro
tection on coal and iron is to be forty
cents per ton for three years and twen
ty -five cents a ton for two years, and
after that free."
lhis, you see, gives the coal and
iron combines five years grace; and
E
et they are not happy. They seem to
somewhat indisposed. The grace
thus granted is four years and 365 day
more than other industries get and also
more grace than the poor farmer gets
on free wool at the jump. To such
length of gTace the House, ot course,
somewhat demurs, as in dutv bound.
and hence the delay of important leg
islation.
The demand of the House is by
no means radical or ruinous upon the
coal and iron combine. It kindly
suggests a sliding scale also in the in
terest of the combines. The House
demands that the duty shall be
reduced five cents eacn year
for five years, and after the lapse
of this time both coal and iron to be
free of duty. Accepting either horn
of the dilemma the combines will have
five years in which to think about free
trade before it fully settles down upon
them. We call that victory enough
for one session for the combines. As
all other points of difference have
been practically settled, the passage
of a tariff reform bill this session
seems now to rest upon the shoulders
of our coal and iron combines, rather
than upon our statesmen in Congress
assembled, and consequently it is yet
to be hoped that the tariff bill will be
be permitted to pass somehow and in
some shape very soon. All it will re
quire then will be the President's sig
nature to make it a kind of a sliding
law.
Differential or Advalorem.
If there is any difference between a
high protective duty and a differential
duty, what's the difference ?
And furthermore, when they talk
about a differential duty ofujets.
per 100 lbs. in addition to 40 per cent
advalorem on all sugars, will the dif
ferential duty make any difference in
the price of sugar used by the woman
in the pantry who is putting up
peaches, for instance ?
And will not the difference between
the differential duty and the advalorem
add considerable more valorem to the
pocket book of the sugar producer
than it does to the sugar consumer ?
Let us be plain in terms of expression
so that the voter may read as he runs
to the polls in his anxiety to help our
statesmen untie some of the ugly high
tariff knots that seem to be so full of
kinks these days. These knots can be
straightened out no matter whether
the tariff duty is differential or ad
valorem. For instance, Mrs. Cha3. Rogers, of
Bay City, Mich., accidentally spilled
scalding water over her little boy. She
promptly applied De Witt's Witch Hazel
Salve, giving instant relief. Its a
wonderful good salve for burns, bruises,
sores, and a sure cure for Piles. W.
S. Rishton, Druggist. tf.
riftj Million in Silver.
The huge vault at the mint known
as vault C. in which Jias been sealed
up for nearly four years, 50,000,000 of
standard silver dollars, was opened a
lew days ago, and the long and labor-
ious task of counting this big amount
of money was begun. As this occa
sion was deemed one of importance,
says the rimadelphia j tme, theie
was observed some little formality.
Dr. Caleb Whitehead had come on
from Washington to represent the
mint bureau 1 Frank Sartori represent
ed Superintendent Townsend; and W.
L. Bosbyshell, CoL Bosbyshell's son
represented the former superintendent.
William E. Morgan, United States
Treasury examiner, was also present.
United Mates Ireasurer Daniel N.
Morgan, who with his son, happened
to be in this city, and accompanied by
Major Worman, witnessed the break
ing ot the seal and alterward made
a tour of inspection of the mint.
Major C. II. Townsend, cashier of
the mint, having been given the com
bination of the vault, proceeded to
open the door. This was easily ac
complished, but when the inner door
was reached some difficulty was ex
perienced, as even after the combi
nation lock was manipulated, the door
refused to open, the bolts from long
disuse sticking fast.
I his was soon overcome, however,
entrance wts finally effected, and the
assembled officials stepped within the
inclosure where lay piled up millions.
On the inside door, fastened by seal
ir.g wax. was a sheet of foolscap paper
containing the statement that $33,000,-
000 had been placed there on Febru
ary 7, 1890, with Major Meline, of the
treasury j B. F. Butler, of the mint
bureau, and James C. Eyster, of the
mint, present, and that further, f 17,
000,000 had been sealed up on May
26, 1S91.
The vault emitted a damp, musty
odor when opened. LTnder the glare
of the electric light the great wealth
of stored silver was visible. There it
lay in bags just as it had been placed-
1 here were 50,000 bags, each con,
taining $1,000 in shining coin. These
bags were piled up one on top of the
other, the topmost almost reaching
the arched ceiling oi the vault, nearly
nine feet high. The whole mass had
been arranged in different stacks.
The first stack was thirteen bags high
and eight across. Just in the rear of
this was a second stack, while still
further back loomed up a third. This,
though, represents only one section of
the vauit. Altogether there are nirc.
The weight of this great amount of
silver is 2,850,000 pounds avoirdupois.
and the tremendous pressure of the
upper bags upon the lower had caus
ed a number of the latter to burst
causing their glistening contents to
spread out upon the floor.
ine Chinese soldiers who carry
swords and bamboo shields it is feared
will get themselves bored in modern
warfare. Carnagie should whisper to
the innocent Orientals that bamboo
will hardly resist the modern boring
machines in the shape of big guns.
Sitting behind his bamboo shield with
a sword in his hand the poor heathen
Chinese is pictured as ready for battle,
What he needs is armor plate and
plenty of it, if he wants to feel per
fectly impregnable in modern warfare
If Carnagie can't throw light on this
point who can ?
The Chinese General Yes is said to
have shown the Japanese last Sunday
that there is a positive as well as a
negative engaged in this fight Gen
eral Yes is reported as having killed
2,000 Japanese.
Grasshoppers are hopping about
lively in Tennessee. They have about
destroyed the crops in Shelby and ad
joining counties.
The Magic Touch
OF
Hood's Sarsaparilla
You smile at the idea. But
if you are a sufferer from
Dyspepsia
And Indigestion, try a bottle, ant be
fort you have taken half a dosen doses,
you will Involuntarily think, and no
qoudi exclaim,
"That Just Hits It!"
"That toothing effect It a magic
touch 1" Uood't Sarsaparilla gently
tone and strengthens the stomach
and digestive organs, invigorates the
liver, creates a natural, healthy den ire
for food, gives refreshing sleep, and
In short, raises the health tone of the
entire system, ltemeiuber
I ' ""V!, Pariiu
Cures
Mood'a PIHt) eurt llrer Ills, eonsttnatlon,
UHous ness, Jaundice, sick headache. Indigestion
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
Notice Is hereby (riven that the underslirned
Auditor, appointed by llio Orphan's Court or
Columbia county to distribute Cue muds lu tlie
hands of the Administrator of the eat ate of l'e-
ver bwuiik, taw? oi sum county, deceased, to and
among the parties entitled thereto, will sit to
perform the duties ot his appointment at the
office of Grunt Herring Esq., in tbu Town of
Bloomaburg, said County, on the 4th day of
September, IttUJ, at 10 o'clock In tbu forenoon of
safd day ; when and where all parties Interest
ed may appear and be beard or be forever de-
birred from coming in on suia fund.
l'UED 1KEI.ER.
Aug. 10-4U Auditor.
luOiWUUll if TTxmrnnn
fiiii
suits I cottNUiuN&MiimiLr us,
FROM S18.Q0.
Alabama is Safely Democratic
The entire ticket was elected. And
it is claimed that W. C. Uatcs ma
jority for Governor is likely to settle
down between 30,000 ana 40,000.
The legislature is also said to be
Democratic by a safe majority in the
house and more than enough in the
Senate.
The charge of fraud is again made.
The Sayre election law requiring every
voter to prepare his own ballot result
ed in cutting offa heavy illiterate vote,
It ta s.iiil that the .10.000 or c 0.000
votes short of that of 189 a is largely
attributable to this cause. It is quite
possible that Mr. Oatcs lost as many
votes as Mr. Kolb, his competitor,
among those that were legally rejected
because of informality.
Kolb claims his election by a ma
jority of 18,000.
A Most Attractive Summer Outiug by
the Pennsylvania Railroad A Tour
Among the Lakes and Islands of the
worth.
The party composing the Tcnnsyl
vania Railroad's first tour to the North
has just returned home, delighted not
only with the general attractiveness of
the trip, but the admirable manner in
which it was conducted. The second
party is now forming, and will go out
under like conditions on August 21st,
reaching home on return trip Scptem
ber 3d. The party will leave Phila
delphia in special Pullman parlor cars
over the picturesque route of the
Pennsylvania to Watkins Glen, thence
to Niagara Falls, the thousand Islands,
the Rapids of the St. Lawrence, Mon
treal, Au Sable Chasm, Lakes Champ
lain and George, baratoga, and last
ly, a delightful trip down the romantic
Hudson.
Ample time is allowed at each point
for sightseeing, and all the traveling
is done by daylight. It would be a
difficult matter to plan a trip of great
er diversity of interest and attraction,
and for those whose summer vacation
is limited there is no outing compara
ble to it. 1 he round-trip rate includ
ing all necessary expenses, from New
ork, Philadelphia, Newark, I renton,
Baltimore and Washington, is $90.00.
Tickets will also be sold from other
stations at proportionate rates. Tour
ist Agent and Chaperon will conduct
the party.
l or tickets, descriptive itineraries,
and reservation of seats on the train,
address Tourist Agent, Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, Broad Street
Station, Philadelphia.
The education of the voters is the
one redeeming feature of the prolong
ed hitch in the tariff reform movement.
The promise was to reform it in the
interest of the masses. Some states
men so-called are hindering. Who are
those statesmen is all the voter wants
to know. In the prolonged fight he
has an opportunity to find out.
FARMERS' HOTEL,
Iron Street,
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
First-class accommodations for reg
ular and transient boarders. Good
stable attached.
CANDIDATES' CARDS.
The following persons announce themselves
as candidates for the oftlces named, subject to
the rules of the Democratic party.
For Congress,
CHARLES R. BUCKALEW,
of Bloomsburg.
For State Senator, (34th District,)
J. HENRY COCHRAN,
of Lycoming County.
For Sheriff,
J. W. HOFFMAN,
of Orange township.
For Sheriff,
J. B. McHENRY,
of Benton.
For Sheriff,
W. W. BLACK,
of Greenwood Township.
For Representative,
E. M. TEWKSBURY,
of Catawissa township.
For Representative,
Wm. T. CREASY,
of Catawissa township.
For Representative,
ANDREW L. FRITZ,
(North Side.)
For Sheriff,
G. W. HIRLEMAN,
of Benton.
m9 tJSS fliiiiMi.
mash stasHi a aa A tMtai a am tta MsntM Jfst I
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
IS
Just received some more of
IW
TIE
offering you at 14c. per yard. Have been Belling at 120c.
all season. Also standard makes of calico at 4c. If you
have not seen any of these goods yet it will pay you to
call and examine them for they are rare bargains.
20 YARDS OF MUSLIN $1.00.
Our remnant box has many pieces in it large enough for a
waist and some large enough for skirts, at ridiculously
low figures. Do not fail to look at them when you are here,
as they will interest you wonderfully.
OUR SHOE DEPARTMENT
has been replenished and we can now show you an elegant
line of men's boy's and children's shoes. Those children's
grain button patent tip Bhoes we are selling at 90c., are just
the thing for school.
(Grocery epartmerrt,
Have you tried our sweet pickles ? They are small but very
solid and are selling fast at loo. pint. Ask for sample.
Our full roller process hemlock flour is still going at $3.00
barrel.
Pursel h Harman,
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
Snyder & Magee Co. Lim.
4th and Market Sts. Bloomsburg, Pa.
Clearing ale.
Our buyer has just returned from the markets where he
has completed purchases of goods suitable for the fall trade.
And in order to make room for same we have decided to sell
our entire
STJLm.rn.Gr Stocks:
-AT-
S-weopira-g: !ESea.u.ctions-
Here are a few of the wonderful bargains we will offer dur
ing the next two weeks :
62 inch part wool challies,
24
424
36
.36
H
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summer calicoes,
twilled delaine,
Tartan plaids,
36
30
figured lawn
satin stripe mull
50 pieces staple checks for
50 " 36 inch bleached
40 pieces 36 inch unbleached muslin,
former price 7c, " Sic.
In addition to the foregoing we will offer special bargains in
silks, worsted dress goods, satins, pongees, organdies, brocades
&c, &c.
Evjry week we are opening new' departments. Our latest i
for toilet articles, which will be found complete with every arti
cle requisite. Soaps, oils, combs, brushes, and the celebrated
" Lady Jane Grey " perfumes.
To see our table linen stock is to be convinced that it is the
largest in the State. All we ask is a visit to our store. No
visitor ia forced to buy.
Snyder & Magee Co., Limited;
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TROUSERS
FROM S5.00.
TIItlE!
those fine sateens we are
former price zdc, now 10c.
7c,
3ic
u
7c,
15c,
4c.
part wool
iormer price zoc,
n 9 - e m
12ic.
12ic
10c.
20c,
15c,
6c,
6c,
aprons,
former price 6c, " 4c
muslin
former price 6c, " 4ic