If you are going to
hare a sale this spring
leave your date, and
order bills at this of
fice. A free notice goes
with all bills printed
here.
Evejrbcdy is wel--cjm9
to a calendar for
1833, who will call at
this offics for it, wheth
er they are sub3:rib3rs
or not. Only a few
more left Come soon.
THE LATE BLIZZARD. SOME OF
ITS DAMAGES.
The Older Onei Set to Thinking About Its
Equal.--The Younger Ones Sty It Wu
the Worst they Ever Saw.. -They Are
Right About It, no Ooubt
On Thursday evening February 7th,
1895, at terrific snow and wind storm,
the nearest approach to the western
blizzard that this section has yet ex-
perienced, set in, and it seemed to
have come to stay. Though not the
genuine western blizzard that defies
man or beast, and that freezes all
clothing as stiff as a board in less than
15 minutes, yet it pi'ed the pure
white and poetical snow so high in
the pathway, the roadway and on all
the railroad tracks, as to temporarily
check all manner of traffic and loco
motion. It was for a time difficult
to discover the poetry the unknown
author found in " the beautiful snow."
In fact the weather was such as to
somewhat endanger the life of man or
beast exposed to it for any great
length of time. Like the western
cyclone tnat sometimes visits us in
summer, we are now beginning to
have an occasional touch of their
winter blizzards, though as yet they
are somewhat tempered to the shorn
lambs cf this latitude. It is a 2row
ing condition admonishing all that in
the midst ot lite it is well to prepare
for death, in winter and summer both
But if we are entirely too spiritually
indifferent for that (and I fear we are)
let us at least try to break the coal
combine somewhat so that we don't
freeze to death for want of cotnered
fuel when the blizzards strke us.
The insignificant and temporary
trolley tie up in Brooklyn was as noth
ing compared with the blizzard tie up
m the greater part of the United
States north, south, east and west.
All the suffering and death resulting
from this fierce wind and cutting sleet
has not been told and never will be.
If wealth covers a multitude of sins,
bonest and modest poverty don't ad
vertise all it knows and feels in winter
cr summer ; if it did there would be
more practical and less theoretical
effort among home missionaries and
theoretical workers in the moral vine
yard who find themselves comfortably
housed when the fierce and biting
elements howl and pierce and shriek
the mimicry of pain inflicted upon
the highly civilized and christianized
at home.
The storm in this vicinity was pro
nounced the very worst we have had
for many years, stopping all traffic
and communication temporarily from
near and far. Where cellars were
not thoroughly banked and closed,
fruits and vegetables stored therein
froze, the thermometer ranging lower
for a continuous period than it had
for years. The 1 ail road 3 centering
here found it impossible to make
schedule time, and in fact they found
it necessary to abandon all effort to
do so, after persistent endeavor had
proven the futility of the attempt. All
of Thursday night, all of Friday and
Friday night, and all of Saturday and
Saturday night, may be included in a
continuous period more or less
blizzardy and blustery, and during all
of which time it may be said to have
been positively dangerous to be out,
as the reports of freezing now fully
confirm.
Reports from the south, where
little or no precaution is taken against
freezing.indicate even greater loss and
suffering than the first cold wave en
tailed upon that section. The ruinous
influence of the storm is said to have
been more or less felt throughout the
south and southwest as well as in the
north and northwest.
As for country roads it will take
weeks in some cases for the farmers
to make them passable for the public.
TESTIMONY FROM ABROAD.
Williamsport. The blizzard struck
this place most severely of anything
we have had for years. It was a ter
ror from any standpoint. People
home by a warm fire were glad of it.
All rail and other traffic interfered
with. Thermometer three degrees
below the lowest. The shivering poor
relieved by orders drawn to get them
coal, &c.
Lewisburg. Thermometer . ranges
from 10 to 16 belewzero. No at
tempt can be made to raise blockades
until the fierce wind abates its fury.
Men will not, cannot work in it.
Wreck crews tried but failed in all
manly attempt to stand it. The Erie
mail train was buried in the snow.
All trains are from one to three hours
late.
Allen wood. Train wrecked Two
engines, a baggage car, and two pas
senger cars thrown off the track tnto
'he snow. Passengers escape, but
Engineer fchrich and his fireman
scalded and seriously hurt
Mahaffey. Wind, 40 miles an
hour ( thermometer 10 degrees below
zero ; all telegraph wires down. Worst
storm in years.
Jersey Shore. The streets desert-
wind has Sweot them c( evpt.
th
linif presuming to live Tm.,.,,..,.
r . " . v. .Pv..lu,s
1 rum o 10 10 degrees below zero.
George Heyd, a farmer came to town
in the morning. In attempting to re
turn he was caught in a snow drift 10
feet deep. He escaped to town and,
securing the he!p of 15 men, his team
was shoveled out. There was too
much wind for the Williamsport wind
mill. It stood the gale until 1:30
when it yielded to the enevitable and
collapsed.
Sr. Joseph, Mo. Thermometer 18
degrees below zero; roads impass
able. 1
Lancaster, Pa The gale drifted
shut all rail and wagon roads. Travel
from rural districts impossible. Busi
ness at a stand still. Men shoveling
snow, Dut Buttering severely.
Harrisburg. The wind and weather
having no respect for rank or title has
stubbornly resisted the home depar
ture of the legislators who generally
spend Sunday at home. The blizzard
kept them in Harrisburg. Henry
Gabelen was found in a box car al
most frozen to death. He was taken
to the hospital Business practically
suspended.
Reading The worst experienced
since the great blizzard in 188S.
Drifts from three to six feet. Public
roads completely blocked.
Allentown. Snow bound worse
than any time since 188S. Business at
a standstill.
New York. Navigation blockaded
in this harbor. Ferry boats run under
great difficulties. The I). L. &. W.
Railroad completely blocked. Freight
traffic froze up.
ChicacO. Disnatches indirafe oreat
storm in Minnesota and the Dakotas.
Temperature here 14 degrees below
zero. Intense suffering in homes of
poor reported; many frost bitten. Mrs.
Schroeder, 75 years old, while going
in search of a nurse, was overcome by
the intense cold and fell and froze to
death. Wm. Chase, a homeless labor-
er, was found in a door-way with the
side exposed to the weather frozen
from head to foot. Though taken to
hospital, there is no hope of his re
covery.
Genoa. Twenty small vessels
driven ashore. A violent storm swei t
the coast, doinc great damaze to
building, piers, Jcc.
Demson, lexas. The worst storm
in years 1 a howlin? blizzard, blowine
at rate of fifty miles an hour. Thou
sands ot cattle are dying from expos
ure. Perry. Oree. T. The worst we
have had in twenty year.
Little Rock. The coldest ever
known hrre. Terrible.
Eailroad Finances-
At the stockholders' annual meeting
of the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad,
on the nth instant, the financial
report showed a decrease of earnings
of $53,4'3 over the amount earned
last year. The settlement of unsettl
ed accounts between the various roads
for hauling interchanged freight is
also now a matter of some concern
and demand, as witness the following
resolution :
A resolution was presented by
David S. Thompson requesting the
board of managers to bring an action
against the Pennsylvania Railroad for
an accounting of through freight
receipts over the Philadelphia and
Erie road during the past six years.
It was referred to the incoming board.
Mr. Thompson represented 17,000
shares.
A Printing Offioe Fire.
In the recent fire which started at
midnight in the State Printing Office
at Harrisburg, it is estimated that
about $100,000 worth of property
fully insured was destroyed. It is
not known how the fire originated.
Nothine was destroyed but what the
legislature can easily reproduce with
additional appropriations. I he An
nual Report of the State Treasurer
was consumed in the names, and all
the manuscript of the Auditor
General's Report, also, along with
other State reports. The 30,000
copies of Agricultural Reports that
went un in smoke can easily be re
placed by printers as well as the maps
and stereotype plates.
A NEW FEATURE.
We are receivine weekly, a two
column lettet from Harrisburg, during
ine present scssiun ui mc o-.cgiaiai.uic,
which will give our readers the run of
legislative manors. It will be printed
usually on the second page. It is
written hv an cxDerienced reporter.
and will prove an interesting feature.
BLOOMSBURG, PA.. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY
KEEKELL-IKELER.
n. ueugnirui anair iook place at the
residence of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. P.
Ikler on Jan. 17, when a number of
relatives and friends assembled to
witness the marriage of their daughter,
Vinnie, to Orin J. Merrell. Promptly
at s o clock, to the wedding march
played by Prof. Ikeler, the charming
bride handsomely attired in French
serge, attended by Milroy Ikeler, who
gave her away, and the groom and
groomsman, B. J. Grimes, entered the
tastefully decorated parlor, where the
ceremony was performed, by Rev. E.
M. Chilcoat.
After congratulations all were in
vited to partake of a delicious wed
ding dinner, prepared by the hand ot
an apt cateress.
The guests were highly entertained
during the remainder of the evening
with amusing recitations and elegantly
rendered vocal and instrumental music
by Prof. Ikeler.
The many useful as well as orna
mental presents are as follows : Bed
room suit, parlor lamp, two sets
smoothing irons, music book, two sets
silver carvers, art plaque, water set,
two sets tumblers, doily, silver butter
dish, coffee mill, large oil painting,
silk throw, handkerchief case, silver
cake dish, glass pitcher, cracker jar,
silver table and tea spoons, silver nap
kin rings, silver nut pickers silver
nut crackers, two sets silver fruit
knives, salt and pepper cups, silver
sugar shells, silver gravy spoon, toilet
set, linen towels, napkins, table cloths,
counter panes, silver pickle caster,
flour sifter, set china fruit dishes, silver
fruit spoons, hand painted china plate,
bed room lamp, centre table, parlor
dust bag. sofa pillow, chenille table
spread, china bread plate and celery
tray, china set, taxidermist crow, etc.
Those present were from Rohrsburg,
Greenwood, Millville, Orangeville,
Canby, Town Hill, Benton, Light
Street, Bloomsburg, Mausdale, Dan
ville, Watsontown, Hughesville, Mon
tandon, Eckley, Iowa and Kansas.
J he guests numbered about one
hundred and twenty five.
A BIG SHERIFF'S SALE-
The Milton Record of last week
says :
"There was great excitement at the
Court House, at Sunbury on Saturday
morning. Sheriff Noriconk sold the
property of the Nathaniel Taylor com
pany, the Penn Anthracite company
being the tenants. The property con
sists of $2700 acres of coal land, a
big breaker, store, school house, six
double houses, fifty-seven single
houses, engines, tracks and in fact all
that make up a big coal operation.
As soon as the sheriff had commenc
ed the sale a well dressed stranger in
the crowd bid the large sum of $500,
000. Congressman Wolverton went
him $25,000 better, and the stranger
with a silk hat bid $25,000 more.
Then the bidding became lively, and
at last the stranger stoppecj and the
property was struck down to Congress
man Wolverton tor the sum ot $700,
000. The next sale was for a tract of
2040 acres adjoining the one above
sold, and this Congressman Wolverton
bought for the same parties for the
sum of $95,000. These properties
are valuable coal lands and their sale
has been adjourned several times.
The Sheriffs costs in these cases are
about $4,000 and with a few more
Sheriff Noriconk can retire at the end
of his term well fixed in wordly
goods."
These properties lie partly in
Columbia County, and they were ad
vertised by Sheriff Noriconk, in The
Columbian.
Sadden Death.
Mr. L. M. Hartman, of Buck Horn,
while engaged shoveling snow during
the blizzard, was taken with a sense
of dizziness from which he never re
covered. He died very suddenly on
Friday morning about 10 o'clock.
He leaves a wife and six children to
mourn his loss, the children being all
married but one. The deceased had
attained the age of about 65 years.
He was buried at Dutch Hill on
Tuesday the 12th instant. Misses
Mary and Clara Beers and Miss Sarah
Thomas, relatives of the deceased,
were conveyed to the funeral by Mr.
John Deily. ,
One of Many Frozen.
While a party of farmers living at
Falls Church, Va.t about twelve miles
from Washington, where digging
through snow drifts to make a road to
secure provisions and mail, they dug
up the frozen body of a plasterer
named Phillips, who had evidently
been overcome by the storm last
Thursday night.
JOHN 0. JAOOBT,
We were able to give but a brie
notice of John G. Jacoby, last week
The following from the Berwick Indc
pendent ot February 8th., is a just
tribute to the memory of a good man
It was with profound sorrow that
the. news of the death of John G
Jacoby was passed from lip to lip on
Wednesday morning. He had been
suffering for a twelve month or more
from the effects of an attack of grip,
that remorseless enemy of mankind.
His afflictions were always borne with
christian fortitude and a spirit of
patient endurance that won for him
the earnest sympathy of his large
circle of acquaintances as well as his
immediate family. Mr. Jacoby was
well and favorably known in this com
munity during the past quarter of a
century, during the latter half of
which he has served continuously as
justice of the peace, his decisions sel
dom being reversed. In addition to
this office he had for a number of
years been successfully engaged in
life insurance in connection with his
son LeGrant, their firm being one of
the most prosperous in Columbia
County. Mr. Jacoby was a man
clothed with many virtue?, and he at
tached to himself in a peculiar man
ner those with whom he associated.
His friendship was not cramped. His
generosity was never checked by
stinting measure. His kindliness had
no ;narrow loundary. His mental
energies were quick to be aroused.
His moral perception was keen and
untainted. In an unusual degree he
possessed the nobler qualities that
make men admired and loved.
He was born at Coopersbure, near
Philadelphia, August 4, 1834, remov
ing to thi3 county he was married
January 24, 1856, to Fannie M.
Sponenberg, and to them were born
five children, one daughter and four
sons: Laura Amandah. Alfred.
Franklin, Isaiah S., John Wesley and
LeGrant S., the only one living.
1 he burial was to have taken place
on Friday at a o'clock, but on account
of the inclement weather it was post
poned until Saturday at the same
hour.
A SURPRISE PARTY.
On Thursday of last week Mrs.
Letilia Everitt, of Rohrsburg, was
treated to an enjoyable surprise by a
visit from a sleighing party of seventy
six people, from Bloomsburg, Shick
shinny, Eyersgrove, Rohrsburg and
vicinity. Mrs. Everitt is seventy-seven
years old, and she was much affected
by the show of friendship and esteem.
The party provided their own dinner,
and it included lots of good things.
After spending the day in an enjoy
able manner they came away, leaving
Mrs. Everitt and her daughter much
pleased with the occasion. The fol
lowing were in the party : Mr. Gra
ham, Rev. Chilcoat and wife, Schuyler
Kramer and wife, Samuel McHenry
and wife, Prof. Ikeler, Mrs. W. P.
Ikeler, Thomas McHenry and family,
J. T. Vaughn and family, Henry
Everet and family, I. M. Rote and
wife, Alfred Evans and wife, John
Rhone and fami'y, John Mellick and
family, Mr. Kline and wife, M. Kraner
and wife, M. Harris and wife, Mrs.
Everet, Margaret Everet, Mrs. Bruce,
Misses Susie and Bertha Utt, Ella
Kramer, Effie Folloner, Jessie Stukey,
Mrs. Hess, Mrs. Albertson, Mrs. P.
D. Black, Mrs. Walters and wife, Mrs.
Workheiser, Hardy Ikeler, George
Follmer, Susie Nagle, Mrs. Traxler,
Howard Traxler, Wm. Barber, Mrs.
C. A. Gillasby, Mrs. Turner Eyer.
University fitension.
It has been arranged to have the
new U. E. course of lectures on
Thursday evenings, beginning March
7th and ending April nth. There will
be six lectures, one each week on
" Representative Authors of the 19th
Century," as follows ; Charles Lamb,
Wardsworth, Scott, Carlyle, Thackery..
Tennyson, (with the privilege of sub-
stituting Thoreau for Wardsworth).
This course will be delivered by
Prof. Henry W. Rolfe, son of Prof.
Wm. Rolfe, the great Shakesperian
scholar. Prof. Rolfe is by far the
most popular of all the U. E. lecturers,
and it is a rare piece of good fortune
to get him to Bloomsburg. He usually
is engaged in New England and in and
near Philadelphia and New, York.
This course of lectures has recently
been entirely rewritten and enriched
in the eighteen months during which
Prof. Rolfe has been recovering from
injuries received in a railway accident.
The syllabus of this course of
lectures costs 15c. Those wishing
them before the course begins, can
order them through our secretary Miss
Ethel Williams. The tickets for the
previous course will admit to this
course without additional payment.
J. r. Welsh,
Pres. U. E. Centre.
15. Ts95.
THE LECTURE AT THE NORMAL.
Again it so happened that the weath
er was unfavorable on the night set
apart for the second lecture in the
students' course at the Normal. The
students themselves were there, how
ever, as well as a few brave ones who
breasted the storm in order to get
there
After the usual introductory for
malities, the speaker, a man of good
physique and voice, proceeded to read
his carefully prepared lecture upon
"What you said yesterday." To our
reporter it seemed that "Language,
and it Origin, Use and Abuse,'' would
have been a better title for the ad
dress ; for this was the gist of his
pleasing effort. The theme being very
appropriately of an educational char
acter, may be deemed rather unfavor
able for witticisms, but Mr. Hulburd
managed to give his audience such
happy interspersions of wit as to elicit
their applause occasionally.
language, he held, was subiect to
cnange lue everything else in nature,
Dictionaries can t avoid it. Thoueh
t-ngusn was a conglomeration of lan
guages, ne Deiieved it to be destined
to become the universal tonmie
While the illiterate often cet through
. o
me with a vocabulary of 300 or 400
words, the educated have less at their
command than is generally supposed
Y hole books may be written without
absorbing or using a fractional part of
tne many thousands found in diction
aries.
As to the origin of lannuace he rather
debased Adam and gave Eve the start
of him in this respect. It is perhaps
the strongest proof of the correctness
of his conjecture to say that Eve still
holds her own in this respect.
As to slang (the first cousin to com
mon sweating for sake of peculiar
mpnasisi wnue inevitable, even amone
certain poets and scholars, it is always
to De deprecated: but more especially
in sacrea otnees and pulpits where the
refined conventionalities cannot be
despensed with without loss of dignity
and due respect for even the house of
God or his most zealous agencies. If
a face as long as a fiddle will not win,
neither will a continuous monkey shine
in me puipit or eisewnere.
State Printer Bnsch Bays Oat ex-State
Printer Meyers
This extensive and valuable plant.
located on South Third street, Harris
burg, was recently bought outright by
the present State Printer. There is
perhaps no printing omce in any ten
States of the Union in which careless
work has been better paid for throuch
legislative enactment than in just this
plant trom whence the Legislative
Record emanates after its own pecul
iar style and whenever it gets ready
but always too late for any immediate
comment upon legislative proceedings
by even weekly papers. In vulgar
parlance " its a pudding," and it is
far too rich to set well on the ordinary
and competitive printer's stomach.
The very thought of getting such a fat
feast gives him the water-brash. Like
the office of National Public Printer
the office of State Printer is well re
garded as a luscious plum quite juicy
enough to dye the whiskers when
bitten.
Death After a Brief Illness.
In the recent sudden death of Sam
uel L. Potter, a respected citizen of
Bloomsburg, we are again admonished
of the uncertainty of this life. After
an illness of but 48 hours he expired,
being in that brief time afflicted with
a complication of ailments which ulti
mately terminated fatally in apoplexy,
the immediate cause of death. In his
death another soldier of the late war
has passed away from the turmoils,
strife and battles of this life, and
another good citizen and affectionate
parent will be missed by his imme
diate relatives and many friends. An
affectionate wife and daughter, Miss
Lillian, survive and mourn his loss.
G. A. Potter, proprietor of the Mill,
ville Tablet, is a brother, and Mrs. M.
S. Williams is a sister of the deceased.
His remains were interred in Rose
mont cemetery on Thursday at 3
o'clock, Rev. P. A. Heilman officia
ting. To the Voters of Bloomsburg-
A rumor having been circulated
that I am indifferent as to the result
of the approaching election, I desire
hereby to say, that if chosen President
of Council, I will serve and endeavor
to do my duty faithfully and in the
best interests of the tax payers.
S. C. Crkasv.
Withdrawn,
We are requested to announce that
Josiah Ralston has withdrawn as a
candidate for Justice of the Peace.
His name will not appear on the
tickets, and we make this public an
nouncement at his request.
NO 7
BRIEF MENTION.
About People You Know.
Mrs
John Hartman is now convalescent.
S. C. Creasy returned from Lancaster on
Saturday.
Col. J. O. Freeze has been ill for
past 10 weeks, and is slowly recovering,
tli
Mrs. W. F. Edwards entertained Mrs. C.
K. Hutchison and daughter from Berwick
last Sunday.
Samuel Turnhach returned on Tuesday
from rhillipsburtf, where he was for a time
storm stayed.
Sheriff McHenry and Louis Lowenheri?
took a business trip to Pittsburtr on Thurs
day. They baeeed their came all rirhL
W. T. Furman, proprietor of Espy hotel
and his brother, Dr. W. H. I'urman, of
Northumberland, were Bloomsburc visitor
00 Monday.
George C. Roan, forman of this office, has
been so seriously indisposed wilh a touch of
drip lately as to be obliged to quit his wok
for this week.
Mr. Elliott Lemon, of Asbury, gave us a
friendly and business call on Wcilnes.'ay.
Mr. Lemon is a competent auctioneer and n
good practical farmer.
Mrs. Harry Grotz, lately Fomewhat indis
posed, is again up ond about Accompanied
by her daughter, Bessie, she took dinner with
Mary and Clara Beers on Wednesday.
W. A. Evert, out of love and respect for
an afflicted mother, worked his way home
through ihe snow drifts on Saturday evening.
He covered a distance of some three or four
miles floundering through the snow, and
sweating in spite of the cold.
Mr. Eli Weaver, of New Columbus, beat
a homeward pathway through the snow from
Zaner's on Friday afternoon. The roadway
being drifted shut he took to the fields ami
picked his path as best he could. To get in
to the armpits was easy enough, but to cet
out was hard work.
UNITED STATES INTERNAL REVE
NUE INCOME TAX.
Taxes on incomes received from January 1st,
1894, to December 31st, 1894, Inclusive,
under the provisions of the Act of Congress
In effect August 28, 1894.
There shall be assessed, collected
and paid upon the gains, profits and
incomes received from all sources in
the calendar year ending December
31st, 1894, by every citizen of the
United States, whether residing at
home or abroad, and from every per
son residing in the United States, a
tax of two per centum on the amount
so received over and above $4,000.00
There shall also be assessed, collected
and paid a tax of two per centum on
all the net profits or incomes, for the
said calendar year, above actual opera
ting and business expenses, of all cor
porations, associations, &c, dome
business for profit in the United States.
Returns are to be made to col
lectors on or before the first Monday
of March, 1895. Penalty of 50 per
cent, added for returns made after the
1st Monday of March, i8q. Blanks
for making said returns ran be ob
tained from Robt. Buckingham, Depu
ty Collector, at Bloomsburg, Fa., by
mail or otherwise, or by addressing
Giant Herring, Collector of Internal
Revenue, at Scranton, Pa. Unless re
turns are made before the 1st Monday of
March, 189?, the penalty will be assess
ed. Taxes due and payable on or before
July 1st, 1895. Full instructions for
making out the blank forms cr returns
are printed on the blank forms.
The 8ons of Veterans' Banquet.
The popular Cafe of Mrs. Phillips
was the resort of a happy throng of
amateur theatricals on Wednesday
evening. The occasion was a ban
quet given through gratitude by the
Sons of Veterans to the home-talent
comprised of those that played so suc
cessfully the Drummer Boy of Shiloh
recently in this place. The program
of the banquet consisted of eating,
drinking, music and dancing.
borne 60 plates were spread, and
the refreshments offered and freely
partaken of were: Cold turkey, cold
ham, chicken salad, potato chips,
oysters and macaroni, celery, finger
loaves, brick ice cream, fancy cakes,
coffee, crackers, cheese, &c. The
feast was all that could have been
reasonably wished for, and it was fully
enjoyed by all present.
After supper music and dancing
prevailed until abaut 2 o'clock.
Inventive Genius.
Now look out for electric broilers
and toasters. They are amone the
things of recent invention. Mr. L. T.
Edwards, of Haverford, is the inven
tor. Another gooJ thing among recent
inventions is an automatic railway
crossing signal, for which a patent was
recently issued to Keller and W. A.
Sharp, of Reading, Pa. T. S. B. Wood,
of Shron, Pa., also has a patent for the
manufacture of m njral wool. At
present writing it mikes pis chilly to
think aliont wearing mineral wjjI next
to the hide.