A UI1APTER OF STATISTICS. The Indebtedness of Pennsylvania Counlloi Over $62,000,000 - Secretary Latta Calls Down Assessors for Neglect ol Duty Some Remarkable Discrepancies as Shown by the Returns to tlio Internal Affairs Department. The returns to the department of internal afTairs show the total indebt edness of the "counties of Pennsyl vania to be $62,601.58391. Phila rtelphia's debt is $53,910,338 98 and that of Allegheny county $3 659. 053 .77. The counties reporting no debt are Bradford, Bucks, Butler, Centre, Clarion, Cumberland, Erie, Franklin, Greene, Lackawanna, Lawrence, Le high, McKean, Northampton, Somer set, Susquehanna, Venango, Washing ton and Wyoming. Lackawanna county, which reported no debt this year, had a debt of $160,000 la:t year. Somerset and McKean coun ties make no return this y;ar. The counties that have increased their indebtedness during the year are Bedford, Cameron, Carbon, Crawford, Elk. Fulton, Jefferson, Juniata, Lan- r.Tt;tr. T.vrnminty Mrrr Mnrthnm. V" beiland. Perrv. Potter. Tioaa and Union. All the other counties either maintain the same indebtedness or have reduced the amount. The total amount of county indebtedness re ported in tStji was $84,773,192.42; 1802, $63,602502.42: 1893, $63, 982.53724; 1894. $63,743.363 4 i . 1895, $62,691,583.91. I The aggregate amount of taxes as- sessec in iso"; is S20.1S7.16S.0S, as against $18,250,660.87 in 1891 v-tfvlarked increases are found in the ounties of Armstrong, Beaver, Brad Urd, Clearfield, Cambria, Dauphin, .He, Huntingdon, Indiana, Jefferson, uniata, Lackawanna, Lawrence, Lu cerne, Mercer, Montour, Northumber and. Perrv. Philadelphia, Schuylkill, ISomtrseT, Tioga and Westmoreland. 'Large decreases are found in Berks, Bucks, Butler, Chester. Clarion, Columbia, Cumberland, Greene, Ly coming, Northampton, Union, Wash- ington and York. I he amount of money at interest, including mortgages, judgments, bonds, notes, stocks, &o, 111 Pennsyl vania, is $620,020,507. What per centage this amount bears to the actual amount at interest and upon which the state should receive four mills annually as taxation, cannot be ascertained, but that many millions of dollars of this species of property escapes taxation is beyond the slight est doubt. Secretary Latta says severe terms are required to characterize acts of the assessors in regard to their return of the value of stages, omnibuses. hacks, &c, in use. This species of personal property is made the subject of taxation for state purposes. There is a large amount ot money invested in this property, and yet the amoun returned in some counties is so trifling as to be hardly worthy of mention. In loot tne total amount returned was $636,667; 1892, $627,179; 1S93 $508,204; 1894, $570,061; 1895 554.467. These figures show that the valu of this kind of property vas several thousand dollars less in 1895 that it was in 1S91, but it is not believe that this is a true representation of tne tacts. In the county of Allegheny, wnere there are hundreds of thousand of dollars invested in this species property, less than one hundred thou sand dollars were returned. In Berk N no return was made for 1S94, an t 7,0io returned in t8ne. t.'amernn county, while it had several stag lines, makes no return at all. Dauphin county in 1894, with its numerous stages, hacks, &c , returned only $685, but there seems to have been something of a gain as the re turns for 1895 show $4,945. Hunting don county returns only $520. This class of property seems to have large ly disappeared from Lackawanna county between the years 1894 and 1895, as in the former year the re turns showed $21,536, and in the latter but $11,379. Snyder county in 1894 returned $150, but in 1895 the assessors failed to find a vehicle upon which to make a return. Sullivan county in 1894 seems to have had no property of this kind, but in 1895 makes a return of $60. There can be scarcely a com ment made on this subject of taxation as returned by the several boards of county commissioners, that does not J reflect in a most unfavorable manner f on the, assessors, and shows shiftless I execution of the tax laws. Reckless- ness, shiftlessness and disregard of f duty seems to characterize the asses I sors and the commissioners in making Ireturns, so far at least as they rejate 2to this species of property, f The money at interest in Pennsyl I vania aggregates $2,482,507.52. A V great increase is shown in the coun ties of Carbon, Centre, Chester, Cumberland, Lackawanna, Lawrence, Northampton and Philadelphia. Large HlirrPQCP 91-A C K n up M 1 r-i lUn r All nfi .iC I of Armstrong, Beaver, Bedford, Bucks, I ' Blair, Clarion, Clearfield, Crawford, Dauphin, Delaware, Erie, Fayette, 'prry. Schuylkill, Warren and West moreland. The increase in state taxes from 1894 to 1895 on this class of property is $16,056.21. Of the total amount, of taxes paid on this V 12,482,507-52. $1,238.57-03 was 1 paid by the county of Philadelphia. I. In 1891 the total amount returned Vio theleartucn under the head of I values of salaries, emoluments of office, posts of profit,, professions, trades and occupations. va $70.20.1. 79; in 1892, $104,881,002; in 893, $111,014,967; in 1894. $114,- 44-9'S ; m 189:, $112,827,751. While there appears to be a niatkid ecreasc in the valuations from 1804 to 1895. lnere 's a noticeable increase from 1 80 1 to 180 s, the increase in that time beina about $12,000,000. These figures no doubt, fall far short of giving the actual valuation existing under this classification, owing to under valuations and to the fact that for none of the years has eitrur Lin- caster or Philadelphia county made any return. In addition to the real estate assess ed for taxation, which amounts to something over two billions of dollars there aie other species of property subject to county taxation. The total value of property taxable for county purposesin 1891 was $2,216,903,2 13 ; n 1S92, $2,459,538,840; in 1893, $2,507,066,937; in 1894, $2,545,500- 73S ; in 1895, $2,621,047,521. lhere has been a gradual increase from 1891 to 1895. All the counties appear to have made complete returns under this heading. Distress After Eating. " I was troubled with dyspepsia and could not eat anything without tenible pain. The doctors gave me medicine but nothing seemed to help nie and my brother told me to tt v Hoo.t's Sarsaparilla. I did so and to-day I am entirely cured and can eat anything I wish without distress." Mrs. Clara B. Ryan, Johnsonburg, l'a. . Hood's Tills cure all liver il's. Beauties of Reminiscence. The .Most Natural Years of Our Liv:s are Those ol Childhood. In January Ladies' Home Journal Rev. Uiailes II. Parkhurst, I). D., in an admirable article on "The Mem ories of Our Childhood Homes,' writes that, "Reminiscence makes us little even when we are old, and helps to keep us pure and fresh with the springtime that was in us a score or a generation of years ago. A boy can never become utterly bad so long as there remains with him a memory of his father ancrmother in the act and attitude ol prayer. I he time may come with the hardening and chilling process of the years when he will himself cease to pray, but from the canvas long ago painted there will never fade the figures of those, now asleep, whose heads were seen day by day Pent in humble, confiding worship, and who in inspired priestliness laid the morning sacrifice upon the family altar; and the memory of father's and mother's prayer helps, at any rate, to keep alive in us our own possibilities of prayer." "The most natural years of our lives we live while we are children, and there is always rest and purification in getting back into touch with them. When the burdens press a little heav ily, and the future is thick with uncer tainties, the wish will sometimes shape itself that we might be back again among our free, fresh, childhood days. We do not understand it very well, but there is something gone that we would dearly love to have back. Those may seem to have been rather unproductive afternoons that we used to spend up in the garret, listening, in the paufes of our merry-making, to the rain pattering on the roof, and we so dry and sheltered underneath, but our life means more even to-day be cause of them and because of our memory of them. Sittsar Loses His Case. Sullivan-Wyoming Judicial Contest Decided In Favor of Judge Dunham. The commission to try the Sittser Dunham judicial contest in the Sullivan-Wyoming district last week made its return to Governor Hastings. The contest is decided in favor of Judge Dunham, the sitting Republican judge, who is returned elected by 177 majority. On the face of the returns Dunham was elected over ex-Judge Sittser, Democrat, by a majority of only seventeen. The commission threw out the votes in the First ward of Tunkhan nock and several votes in Sullivan county, thereby increasing by 150 Dunham's majority. The report is signed by Judge Archbald, of Scran ton, and Judge Searle, of Montrose. Judge Woodward, of Wilkes-Barre, was called into the trial of the case after the retirement of Judge Rice to go on the superior court bench, and did not sign the leport for this reason. Proceedings have been commenced at Tunkhannock to compel the peti tioners for the contest to pay the expenses. " Hello!" will Cost a Nickel. A telephone company is about to begin business in Chicago on a rather novel plan. There will be slot machines placed at convtnient points, and by depositing a nickel, connection can be had with any desiiable point. If the service is not secured the machine returns the nickel. THE COLUMBIAN, the whole oil You look at cod-liver oil. It is so much oil or fat. But the chemists come along and tcU 119 that in that oil are united, in almost invisible form, most valuable medicinal agents, that the fat of cod-liver oil is only one of its merits, and that no process of medical skill or chemical science can unite these peculiar properties with oil as they exist in nature. This is why there can be no substitute for cod-liver oil. When you get Scott's Emulsion 'ou t ZVoiidiZ' , - . . cled into tiny little parti cles, digested, and ready to be taken up into the system. The hypophosphitcs which are combined with it are valuable tonics, increasing the appetite, strengthening the nerves, and restoring vitality in the weakened system. When you ask for Scott' I'muWnn and your drujrglut give you a salmon-cclnred packaire with the picture of a man and flan on It you can trut that man with your prescription. I . 80 centi and $1.00 5C0TT & IJOWNC, Chemists, New York. IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF Alt PK T , MA T T 1 1VCJ , or OIL. CJLOTII, YOU WILL FIND A NICE LINE AT W. m. BEOWEE'S 2nd Door Bbove Court Hous. A large lot of Window Curtains in stock. ALEXANDER BROTHERS & CO. DEALERS IN Cigars, Tcbicco. Cardies, Fruits and Huts SOLE AGENTS FOR Henry Mail lard's Fine Candies. Fresh Every Week. 2?tsj:n"s Good3 .a. Specialty, SOLE ACENTS FOR F.F. Adams & Co's Fine Cut Chewing Tobacco Sole agents for the following brands of Cigars- Haary Clay, Londros, Normal, Indian Prhcoss, Samson, Silvor As Bloomsburg Pa. TNP AT W. H. MOORE'S And see the largest collection of shoes in the county. All bought before the advance in prices. You get the benefit of our early buying. Our fall and winter underwear and hosiery is now on our counters at prices never heard of before. Coni.-ia Icon and Main Sts. "He that works easily works suc cessfuly." Tis very easy to clean house with SAPOLIO B. F. Sharpless, Tres. N. U. Funk, Sec. C. II. Campbell, Treas. 1 teBLOOMSBURCcSO LAUD IMPROVEMENT COMPANY. Capital Stock, $30,000. Plotted property is in the coming business centre of the town. It includes also part of the factory district, and has no equal in desirability for residence purposes. t CHOICE LOTS are offered at values that will be doubled in a short time. ! No such opportunity can be had elsewhere to make money Lots secured on SMALL MONTHLY PAYMENTS Maps of the town and of plotted property furnished on ap plication. 1 Call upon or write to the Secretary, or J. 8. Woods, Sales Agent, or any member of the Board of Directors. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. ,xr xt B F- S"AEPLE8S; J. L DlLLON. C. W. Neal A. G. Briogs, Dr. I. W. Willits, Dr. H. W. McReynolds, N. D. Funk. 1 1-19. For the finest and best stoves, tinware, roofing spouting and general job work, go to W. W. Watts, on Iron street! Buildings heated by steam, hot air cr hot water in a satisfac tory manner. Sanitary Plumbing a specialty. I have the exclusive control of the Thatcher steam, hot water and hot air heaters for this territory, which is acknowl. edged to be the best heater on the market. All work guaran- IRON STREET. BLOOMSBURG, PA. W. H. rioore. W. W. WATTS, Bloomsbiirgi Pa. MWMjr 7 ; I rlrr-: . . i r.lHnS.K- I Tho ost burning oil that can'jo madofrom potro loum. I It give n UiUiant light- ' V ,H not smoke the chimftevs. It cliar the wick. It has a hiuh fire t,8t- ll U "l" explore. It Is ire-i:illy a fanilly ':ty oil. Wc Challenge Compa other illuminating o' We stake our Reputation, upon the statement that it nm.. ir i r : jLee jibes r m IM Til: WOMLD. ASK YOUR DEALER FOR. Crown - Acme TIE ATLANTIC REFIKIKG CO, BLOOMSBURG STATIOxV, liLOOM SrUKG, VA THE MARKETS. KLOOMSUURO MARKETS. COHHICTKD WIIILT. BITAIL TKUtB. Butter per lb $ Kggs per dozen Lard per lb , Hani per pound Tork, whole, per pound Beef, quarter, per pound. . , . Wheat per bushel Oats " " Rye " " ' .2 .2 1 .12 06 07 Wheat flour per bbl i nay per ion 2 :o $i rotatoes per bushel, Turnips " " . Onions " " .. Sweet potatoes per peck 2 to .to T II 11- ' J - i auow per id Shoulder " " Side meat " " Vinegar, per qt Dried apples per lb. . . . Dried cherries, pitted. , Raspberries Cow Hides per lb 1 .1 3 Steer " " Calf Skin .80 75 .60 2.00 Sheep pelts , Shelled corn per bus . Corn meal, cwt Bran, " ...... Chop " Middlings " Chickens per lb new. " " " old Turkeys " " Geese " " Ducks " " 1.1 1.1 1.1 .08 .1 .08 COAL. No. 6, delivered a Aa 11 . " 4 5 3.50 2. " 4 and s at yard 3. 2.25 E. A. RAWLINGS. -I'KALER IN All Kinds of Meat. Beef, Veal, Lamb, Mutton, Pork, Hams, Bacon, Tongues, Bclogna, &c. Free Delivery to all part3 of the town. CENTRE STREET, DLOOMSBURC, PA. &3f Telephone connection. PATENTS PCtntati?,.a,n1 Trailfl Mark,! obtained, and at FKKS UU!,lueBa conducted lor ilUDKUAla Send modol, drawing or photo, with dnnorin tlon. We advise It patentable or not. free of AoX Bring tho Babies. INSTANTANEOUS PROCESS USED. Strictly first-class guaranteed photographs, crayons and copys at reasonable prices We use exclusively the Collolion Aristotype pa peis, thus securing greater beauty of finish anil permanency of results. CAI'WELI. MARKET SQUARE GKLLERY. II-2Jly. Over Ilanimin's Store. GET YOUR JOB PRINTING DONE AT THE fon with Winy rv r RsvV T . f I. 1 1 VOLUMBJA! OFFICE N. U. FUNK, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, . . f w llmiU A-llcT. Ji. U. tu""! I Un. F-nt't Hi"""Si ' BLOOMSBURG, FA. A. L. FRITZ, ATTORNEY AT-LAW, Pott Office DuildinB. "d flo,,T BLOOMSBURG. TA. C. V. MILLER, ATTORN EY-AT-UAW, Wirt's Building, 2od float, BLOOMSBURG, TA. . . true?. M" n If A It y IK JU1M U. r FREEZE & IIARMAN, ATTOHNEYS ANI COUNHKM.OK3 AT LAW r.LOOMSUURG, PA. Offlcos: Cent re si., nrnv - GEO. E. ELWELL, , ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, .lumbian BuUding, 2nd floot, BLOOMSBURG, P.- M. h MAG ILL, ORNEY AT LAW. ATI BLOOM -WURO.-PA. no- r 1 ix building, Ofnce in Teucock s b Squal' W. II. SNYDER, ATTORNKY-T- I. AW, Cilice 2nd floor Mrs. Knts building, BLOOMSBURG, PA. ROBERT R. LITTLE, ATTORN E Y-AT-LA W, Columbian Building, 2nd flooi, BLOOMSBURG, PA. THOMAS B. IIANLY, . ATTORN EY-AT-LAW, Office in Peacock's Building, Market So,. BLOOMSBURG, PA. H. V. WHITE. A. N. TOST WHITE & YOST ATTORNE IS-AT-LAW Wirt Building, Court House Square. BLOOMSBURG, FA. II. A. McKILLIP. y. , ATTORNfeY-AT-LAW Columbian BuiKil', 2nd Floor. bloomsbVkg, TA. IKELER & ikELER, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office back of Farmers' National Bank. BJ.OOMSBURG, PA. R. RUSH ZARR, Attorney-At-Law BLOOMSBURG, PA. Office in Clark's Block, corner of 2nd and , Centre Streets, i-i2.'94 W. A. EVERT, Attorney-At-Law. BLOOMSBURG, PA. (Office over Alexander & Co. Wirt building; EDWARD J. FLYNN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, CENTRA LI A, PA. nronice I.lddlcot bulldlntr. Locuitt avenue. JOHN M. CLARK, 1TT0RNIY-AT-LAW AXD JVSOCM Of TBI PEACE, Moyex Bros. BuUding, sad floor, BLOOllSBURG, PA. J. IL MAIZE, iTTORNEY-AT-LAW, INSUBABCS ABB KJtAL ISTATI AGUTC, Office in Lockard's Building. BLOOMSBURG, PA. B. FRANK ZARR, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Clark's Building, cor. Main aud Centra X4 BLOOMSBURG, Pa, 4Can be consulted in German. W. H. RIIAWN, ATTORK EY-AT-LAW, Office, corner of Third and Main Streets, CATAWISSA, PA. J. B. McKELVV, M. D., BURGEON AND I'llYSICIAN, Office, North side Mam St., below Market, BLOOMSBUKG, PA. Dr. J. C. RUTTER, PHYS1CIAK AND SURGEON, Office, North Market SUevt, v V. I l. t BLOOMSBURG, pjy,
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