THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG, PA.
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Al Mloouih'iurs'i
Gt. U. iuWELL EmroK.
GEO. L K".N, Foreman.
Tr: tn-iilc tUo l ouut) , 11.00 ft year In ad
vane; 1' 11 '1- p.i'it 1" advance1 Outside
the county. S'nr strtntly In advance.
All cdiuiuun'.ciitlms should be addressed to
TUK COLUMBIAN.
Dloomsbuiy, ra.
' 'KIDAV, AUUVST 9, 1S95.
Candidates.
I CU SSOCIATE JUDGE,
MOllDf.CAI MILLARD,
C.KXTKE township.
WASTING
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Squandering Thousands lor Needless
Supplies for the Departments of the
State Government.
Thjra W:is No Money For Many Worthy
Ch.vitiet 01 The Stats. But Plenty
For Luxuries For The Officials.
The Ilarrisburg Patriot of last
Monday contains the following :
Thousands of dollars ot the people's
money are to be squandered this
year tor needless supplies for the
various departments of the state
government. Contracts have been
awarded by the board of public build
ines and grounds for an abundance of
the best bay rum, fancy soaps, exper
sive towels, rare flowers, chamois
skins and Dresden china inkstands.
The board has also ordered expensive
furniture, silverware and cut glass for
the executive mansion and costly
furnishings for the new quarters of
Lieutenant Governor Lyon on the
second floor of the north wing of the
capitol. It will be hard to convince
the average citizen that the State is
short of funds when he learns of this
extravagance.
Requisitions for all these things
were made a year ajo upon the
board, but Auditor General Gregg
and State Treasurer Morrison, who
constituted a majority, refused to al
low them and they were stricken from
furniture, &c, for the senate and house
of representatives and the several de
partments. But things are different
now. Everything that was refused
men win De supplied tins year, ana a
great deal more.
A new feature this year is the bulb
and flower schedule, which indicates
that the state is going into the floral
business on an extensive scale. This
schedule includes all of the finer
varieties of roses, Dutch and Roman
h--..-mf'-s. lilies, daffodils, Chinese
sacred lilies, lilies of the valley,
janonicas and the ixia crateroides, a
fiery scarlet tiowcr of great beauty.
the schedule also calls tor 200 strong:
clumped japonicas to cost $4 a hun
dred and the same number of
japoaica com pacta multirlora, the cost
of which is scheduled at 6 a hundred.
Anotner new leature this year is
two dozen leather ca?es for carrying
postage stamps, one dozen real seal
card cases, selected, and four German
silvet itaJmg glasses with ivory han
die. Kieven inclinometers are called
for to keep the clerks and officials
informed as to the condition of th
mercury. In tue matter ot stationery
there will be fancy wntmg paper, wu'i
envelopes to match, in costly boxes.
There will also be fine pocket knives,
scheduled at $3.25 each and combina
tion pocket knives at $4 each. Buck
skin pocket knife cases will be sup
plied to preserve the knives from rust
and dirt. The schedule calls for
three dozen of scissors and forty
pairs of shears. Nine dozen of foun
tain pens wi.i he distributed among
the slate ofhcials and employees. Be
sides hundreds of ordinary pens and
penholders are scheduled, together
with many ross of lead pencils and
hundreds of quarts of writing fluid.
1 he board has contracted for two
dozen inkstands, three dozen fine cut
glass inkstands, some oak bases, six
porcelain inkstands, a dozen Daisy
automatic ink wells and several hun
dred quails of Arabian mucilage.
I tie principal items in the soap
schedule are fifty dozen Colgate's
olive palm, fifty dozen White Rose
glycerine, twenty-five dozen Colgate's
superfine and twenty-five dozen Cuti
cura for the skin. There are also
scheduled about 2,500 pounds of
scrub and cleansing soap.
The supply schedule includes hair,
hat, clothes, shoe, nail, scrub and dust
brushes, six dozen coat whisks and
numerous uaUDcrs. ir.is schedule
also calls for seven dozen waste paper
baskets, ten dozen bath sponges
fifteen dozen chamois skins, ten dozen
china, nickel and stone cuspidors
and twelve blacking cases of oak and
walnut. In the book schedule there
are sixteen Harrisbure, fifteen Phila
delphia and eight Pittsburg directories.
There are also six dict onaries, a set
of Appleton's encyclopedia, a West
cott's history of Philadelphia and a
library of 500 volumes of standard
1
woiks for '.lie executive mansion.
The towel bch(.dule calls for all
sorts of towels. There are loo bird's
eye Imck, hemstitchi-d, with the words.
" Comnioi.weaUh of l'ennsylvania,"
woven in each towel, fifteen dozen
snow drift " bath towels, five dozen
linen bath toweU, twenty five dozen
hemstitched tove's, three dozen
bleach towels and 250 yards of crash.
Strange to say, the schedule docs not
call lor any cork screws, but it calls
for about evervthinc else kept bv a
first class hardware establishment.
Some of the " useful ' articles provid
ed for by this schedule are claw ham
mers, monkey wrenches, carpet tacks,
wire brads, cross and rip saws, chisels,
jscratch awls, rivet cutters, gimlets,
screw drivers, nail pullers, syringes,
fumigators, hoes and rakes, trowels,
sheep shears, spades, manure forks,
pruning knives, lau mowers, axle
bolts, red, blue and green paint, wal
nut stain, harness dressing and glue.
I he schedule 01 miscellaneous sup
plies includes ten dozen baccarat and
six dozen fine cut tumblers, one dozen
Limoge pitchers, one dozen filters.
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filtered, twenty gallons of ammonia.
iour uemijonns ot a cneaper grade 01
ammonia, a half barrel of lubricating
oil, a half barrel of castor oil, twenty
pounds of lump alum, ten pounds of
camnhor, ten gallons of insect fluid,
eighteen dozen of shoe blacking, nine
alligator satchels and one refrigerator.
The board has contracted for two
$500 clocks with chimes and mantel
decorations and three office clocks
ranging in price from $15 to $60.
There is a greater variety of clocks
now on Capitol hill than in the largest
establishment in Ilarrisburg. After
every session of the legislature one or
two of these expensive time pieces
disappear and it becomes " necessary"
for the board to purchase new ones to
take their p aces.
Lieutenant Governor Lyon will have
in his new apartments five pairs of
curtains to cost $100 each, a cover
for a grand parlor piano to cost $100,
although no arrangement is made in
the schedule for the piano. These
apartments will be furnished with
mahogany furniture and costly carpets
and rugs. The schedule provides
lor six hre sets at $12? each. 62 s
yards of the best Wilton carpet and a
great many rugs, rancing in price
trom $2.50 to $60. Many of the de
partments are to have new furniture of
mahogany, quartered oak, walnut or
cherry. The carpets will be used for
the lieutenant governor's rooms and
the departments of internal affairs
and public instruction.
1 he executive mansion will be re
furnished at an expense of about
$30,000. The parlor will be Louis
XIV style and the study Moorish.
mere will be expensive portieres,
curtains, overdraperv and wall and
window hangings. The schedule also
calls for a " tea service, six Dieces.
latest designs," to cost $400, for the
mansion, and an entire equipment of
silverware, including a, marquis set of
tea, cessert and table spoons, forks.
dessert and eating knives, sugar spoons
and tongs, oyster forks, coffee spoons,
punch ladle, gravy ladle, orange
spoons, lettuce forks and soup ladle.
Lestdes, there are fruit knives, fish
sets, salad spoon?, ice cream spoons,
tomato server, iellv server. Trilbv
berry torks, pickle forKS, grape scissors.
cake knife, bon bon dish and spoon:
;ese scoop, butter plates and
spreaders, suar sifter, pepper and
salts, candelabra?, chafing dish and
cnahne spoons and flazon.
1 he special cut glass schedule for
the executive mansion comprises
bowls, trays, water pitchers, carafes,
cheese dish, bv.it dishes, vase, sugar
bowl, cream pitcher, cruets, tumblers,
goblets, spoon holders, finger bowls,
knife rests, ice tubs, cracker jars and
iruu saucers. .Much ol the furniture.
carpets and drapery now in use are in
good condition and will stand the
wear for ten years. To make room
for the new furnishing for which the
board has contracted it will be sold at
public sale in the corridor of the capi
toi to the highest bidder.
t first it was reported that the
reason why the Koaringcreek dele
gates to the Republican County Con
vention did not appear in their seats
was that they were under the influence
of liquor. This is now denied, and
the story is that they dared not come
in the convention and vote, becausj
they had accepted money from bot 1
sides. Who handled the money we
don't know, but we do know when
and where and to whom thev told
that they had been boodled by both
factions. It would not have changed
the result, but this little incident
shows that all parties employ the
same means for accomplishing politi
cal ends, and the boasted honesty and
purity and integrity of the G. O. P
is a myth and a delusion.
In the Republican factional fight
the Hastings combine is losing ground,
and Quay is caining every day.
Should Quay control the convention
it would be a humiliating thing either J
for the Governor to be defeated as
chairman of the convention, or to ac
cept it through the courtesy of Quay.
It may also make a difference in the
nominees for Superior Judges. There
is a nice fight on hand, and Demo
crats can afford to look complacently
on, ana smile.
OOS'SOLIDATED COMPANIES.
TO MAKE LOCOMOTIVES THAI WILL CO
I50 MILES AM HOUR.
The Baldwin Locomotive works i
Philadelphia, and, the Westinghou :
Motor Company of Pilt"bur? have cnt 01
ed into an agreement for the manu
facture of electric encii.es.
W. 1). Updegraff, private secretary
to George Westinghouse, Jr., in ex
plaining the scope of the afliliation ot
interests of the two companies said :
The combination is to develop
the possibilities of the Tesla motor as
applied to the railway service. I
intend to make it possible to rule
from New York to Pittsburg in three
hours. With the Tesla motor we are
assured power to draw a car fit the
rate of 150 miles an hour or more.
The only thing now is to get cars and
car wheels that will stand the strain of
traveling at that rate of speed. The
Baldwin people assure us that this
can be done."
We now have this system working
at our plant at Last Pittsburg, the
only trouble being to get a car that
will remain on the track. We believe
that with this union of inte-ests we
will be in operation between Pittsburg
and New York. The present railway
tracks cannot be used. We want air
lines. The cars will be very light and
on the principle of the air ships. We
can run them on trestle woik that
would not bear the weight of a Pull
man coach. We intend to cross the
mountains by lifts.
It is only intended to use the lines
for passengers, mail and express.
There will be do engines, each car
being provided with its own motor. A
car will not stop until it reaches its
point of destination."
GENERAL NEWS,
Trolley parties are being inaugurated
on the Pottsville line.
The Philadelphia & Delaware
county trolley line has reached Media.
Tumbling down a high precipice at
Wilkes-Barre, little George Peterski
was mortally hurt.
Ex Chief of Police B. F. Meyers, of
W likes Barre, has gone insane, and is
in Danville asylum.
The Colbert colliery, at Shamokir,
employing 600 men, has resumed woik
after an idleness of a month.
Hotel Proprietor Amandus Rice, of
Wind Gap, who shot the renders
brothers, has surrendered.
Judge Cyrus L. Tershing, who had
long been ill, returned to his duties at
Pottsville court house baturdav.
The Shenango and Mahoning valley
manufacturers have advanced wages
of union puddlers twenty-five cents a
ton.
The Stewart iron company, of
Sharon, have acceded to the demands
of their employees by granting a ten
and twenty-five cent raise.
Assistant superintendent Alexander
Bryden, of the Pennsylvania coal com
pany, has been made superintendent,
with headquarters at Dunmore.
The employees of the Pennsylvania
bolt and nut company, Lebanon, have
received notices of a ten per cent, in
crease, to go into effect August 16.
While readjusting an arc light car
bon, Curtis Shipp touched a live w.re
at ahaniokin. Although lie received
2,000 volts, he escaped with a badly
burned wrist.
The employees of the Franklin cop-
per mine at liancocn. .Mich, nave
had their wages restored to the figure
holding before the cut caused by the
panic two years ago.
llham Grundy x Co., proprietors
of worsted mills in Bucks county, who
took ten per cent, oft their several
hundred employees a year ago. have
added the ten per cent, again.
lhe Christian Endeavor Slate Con
vention, to be held at hne, beginning
Thursday, August 22, and lasting four
days, will be the largest meeting of
the kind ever held in Pennsylvania.
A tent is being prepared that will hold
7,500 people.
A belinsgrove lady was startled the
other day when she went to answer a
ring at the door bell and found no one
there. I he mysterious ringing of
the bell, so the Sunburv Item says,
was repeated at intervals during the
day and in the evening the lady re
Hood's Saved
' Ca8SyHT0hT."t,y fly Life
"For years I was In a very surloui conditio
With catarrh ol tbu atoiuacb, bowels and bladder,
I sullered Intensely
from dyspepsia, and
In fact was a mlavr.
able wreck, merely
a skeleton. I seem
ed to go from bad
la wane. I reully
wished I was dead.
I had no rest day or
night. I did not
know what to do.
had taken so much
medicine of the
wrong kind that It
had poisoned me.
nnd my finger nallt
Mr. W. K. Young, black and some off.
r-ousr's Mills, Pa. I began to take
Hood's Karsatiarllla. I had faith lathe medicine,
and It did more for me than all prescriptions.
have gradually regained perfect health, am
entirely free from catarrh ot the bowels, and
pain In my back. Myreoovery Is simply mar
velous." W. R. Youmo, Potter's MUls, Pa.
Hood's-Cures
Hood's Pllla reller diitrew after Mtlntb
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ceived the announcement of the death
at Muncy ol her cousin.
The Carbon County Game and
Fish Protective Association received
forty German hares, or Belgian rabbits,
which will be carefully guarded until
fall, when they will be allowed to run
in the woods of Carbon county. Ger
man hares multiply very fast. One
buck and two does were brought into
the country about five weeks ago by
William V. Johnson. These three
have already increased to over twenty,
and pretty soon they will begin to
multiply so fast that it will be im
possible to keep count of them.
As a number of young men were
on their way to Hazel Dell, near Ell
wood, Lawrence county, one of them
noticed a peculiar hissing noise issuing
from a large hollow tree near the
road. An investigation disclosed
the fact that the tree was literally full
of snakes. The snakes showed fight,
but the boys pulled off their coats and
went to work. In an hour 45 snakes
had been killed. The largest measured
a trifle over 6 feet in length, and they
ranged from that down to ten inches.
They were of the blue-black snake
variety. They fought desperately,
but the boys escaped without being
bitten.
Sheriff Fulmer, of Lycoming county,
is in a predicament owing to a mis
take made by him a few days ago
resulting in the discharge of the wrong
man from jail. William Donley was
committed for picking pockets during
the Williamsport centennial, and was
awaiting trial under heavy bail, when
he suddenly and unexpectedly regain
ed his freedom. The Sheriff had
received an order for the discharge of
a trivial offender whose name was
somewhat similiar, and in preparing
the order of discharge copied the
wrong name from the docket. A
messenger carried this to the jailer,
who forthwith opened Donley s cell
and astounded him by telling him he
was free. Donley was so elated that
he hung around Williamsport a day or
two, and even paid a visit to some of
his old cronies in the jail. When he
found out that he had been discharged
by mistake he lost no time in getting
away from the city, and no trace of
him has been obtained.
Wood's Oollege of Business and Short
hand, Vr:'. Earre, Fa.
Wilkes-Banc will eclipse all former
records in Business College organiza
tion. 300 purchased Charter Membei
Scholarships in 40 days.
1 73 day school.
1:7 night school.
The Scholarship ivuluuts both the
Business and Shortnand Courses, does
not limit the MU'ieni to lime and is
ood in both sessions at the price of
one Scholarship, 50.
I he home of the College in Memor
ial Hall is almost a palace, the equip
rncnt is superb.
10 of the Charter Member Scholar
ships reseivcd for Columbia county.
Alter August the regular rate of
tuition will be charged.
Write for College Journal.
1". E. Wood,
8 0 4t. President.
KOUBI,
V4 size.
Pries
FOTOGRAPHS
ALL SUES, . NEW STVLES.
Ralph G. Phillips,
Ground Floor uallorr, opposite Central Hotel,
BLOOM SBURC, PA,
IH1L.I,11 HCllH tlie KOMIII.
7-iiy.
E. A. RAWLINGS.
DEALER IN
All Kinds of Aleut.
Beef, Veal, Lamb, Mutton,
Pork, Hams, Bacon, Tongues,
Bologna, &c. Free Delivery
to all parts of the town.
CENTRE STREET,
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
ffcTTelephone connection.
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CORNER LIMIT L MARKET Sts.
BLOOMSBURG PA.
In the tfhee of b,
We are offering you now
and wool dress goods, that we cannot commence to buy at tne
figure as they cannot be manufactured for it. Why do we do
thk? Kpmnse we believe in frivinr our patrons the benefit
of our experience in buying before the goods advanced. You
reap the beneht ol it, and so do
Wool Dress G:ods.
We place on sale to day
some Henriettas that we used
to sell at $1.00 the yd. To
day we cut the price in half
and offer it for 50c. yd.
Skirt Lengths.
In our spring cleaning we
found a lot of goods that
would make a lady a nice
skirt. We proceeded to tie
them up in bundles for that
purpose and to-day they go at
ust about one-halt the cost
when new.
Will make you an elegant
skirt for mornings.
Remnants.
There is always to be lound
in this box lots of useful things,
some long enough to make a
skirt, some a waist, and you
can always find some thine
that
will be of use to you.
FUMSEL &
BLOOMSBURG,
huptuhe can be cured.
Grateful Testimonial From One Who Has
Been Cured.
Thi new ni t lirxl of iMiri'it; rupture. nrai'tlcPd
liy lr O'.Miillcy, Ml Soul li W.-isiiliiKton alreer,
w iiKen-Hiuif, is Di itiuiL' niosr excellent r-
Biilts. An ntW'liite cure lHt-iifiruntPcri In ninety
out of the htimlreil cns"H mm under treutHicnt.
There Ik 110 discomfort or annoyance of wear
hm' a truss afterwards. No ruttlnir. 110 pal 11
and no operation Many ti Mimc nlal.s from
grateful putk'iitti, out; of which In (riven by pcr-
John VMliiKor, at Division str vt. employed
at Nicirmaler'H brewery. IlKc-t-HuiTe, says:
"1 had been ruplunil In. 111 liiiintr heavy
weights and hard work. I tiled many physi
cians, '!io pro'iiiuiiccil ui.v case Incurable. No
truss was ot any use to me mini I consulted
Dr U'Malley about three months nifo I am
now well I Imvc no p no runt lire, and am
dcllKhti-d to liilorm my fellow suffeiers. I now
won; mini at tne weweiv every nay ana nave
thrown away my hush, haying uo occasion to
use it "
N H. We make no rhuvge when we Uo not
euro. Exaiuluat Ion five.
DR. A. P, O'MALLEY,
So s. Wahin-tnn St. Wilies-Earro, Ta,
Do your walls need
paperiiig ? If
so,
call 011
Willikni ft. 0Me,
Exchan'ce Motel Bldu.,
and see for what
a small amount
you can have it
done. Our stock
is the largest and
most carefully
selected in town.
The prices suit
the hard times.
William B. Slate,
Ii O OKS, 8TA TIONER Y A ND
WALL PAl'lili.
HATTER.
TROUSERS
FROM S5.00.
Met !
thousands of yards of cotton
we out in a atiiereni way.
They are all of them marked
at one-half the actual cost and
some less.
Shirts.
We have just received a new
invoice of unlaundried men's
shirts. We are oflering them
to you for 50c. each. While
the quality of muslin and linen
which is consumed in their
manufacture cost more now,
but we bought it some time
ago.
Can't be equaled in town for
the money.
Madras Cloths.
We place on sale to-day one
en tire stock of these gocds at
greatly reduced prices. Some
of them at less than half, some
not quite so much, but they all
go for one price 10c. the yd.,
used to be 25 and 15c. and
well worth it.
HAMMAN,
Penn'a.
Having procured the ser
vices of K. H. Frodich, an ex
pert watch maker and hand
engraver, all goods purchased
of me will be engraved free of
charge. I am also better pre
pared to do watch, clock and
jewelry repairing than ever
before, A new and complete
optical outfit has been added,
and glasses are adjusted and
fitted iree of charge."
J. Q. Wells,
Jeweler and Optician,
BLOOMSBURG PA.
Borsons ta Travel.
WANTED Several faithful gentle
men and ladies to travel for establish
ed house.
SALA.EY $780.00 &ND EXPENSES.
Position permanent if suited j also
increase. State reference and en
close self-addressed stamped envelope.
THE NATIONAL,
316-317-318 Omaha Bldg., CHICAGO.