THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
Italian.
KSTAllUSHEl) 1866.
ttltc tfoluurtto Snuorrat,
JfTAWi.lf II RD 1837. :C0NH0I.I0ATKD 18W.
PUBLISH E.D SVKKV TIll KsDAY MOHNINU
at rtloomsburg, tlio Couuty sent of Columbia
county, Pennsylvania.
OBO. K. ELWF.IX KniTOR.
UEU. KOAN, FOHKMAN.
Tsatfs: Instdo the county, $1.00 a year to ad
tanoo; $1.50 It not paid In advanco Outsldo
the county, $1.25 a year, strictly In advance.
All communications should be addressed to
TUB COLUMBIAN,
Bloomsburg, Ta.
THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1896.
' The Po-Nothing Congress,
Trobably since Congresses first as
sembled at Washington there never
was one which had greater opportu
nity than the Fifty-fourth Congress to
afford the country helpful legislation,
or which more bitterly failed to grasp
its opportunity. It would have greatly
diminished the chances of electing a
Republican Congress and President
in November if this Congress had fol
lowed the recommendations of the
Tresident with regard to financial
legislation. It would have been almost
as hazardous to have adopted some
temporary measure, like a beer tax, a
tax on coffee or tea, or a slight tax on
sugar, to cover the lessening deficit
in the Federal revenue. But notwith
standing the early admission that the
operations of the Treasury would
have been facilitated and large sums
of money saved by arming the Treas
ury with the power to issue low-interest
short-term bonds, and that more
revenue was an immediate necessity,
partisanship overbore every other
consideration. Speaker Reed an
nounced at the beginning of the ses
sion that it would be a do-nothing
Congress. He has made good his
prophecy. Nothing has been done
except to make heavy appropriations,
and by neglect and delay to prolong
a season of industrial distress and ap
prehension in the hope therefrom to
reap political advantage.
These are hard words, but they are
true. If they need confirmation be
yond that which the facts bear on
their face the confirmation is to be
found in the admissions of Republican
leaders that their inactivity has been
deliberate. They have only attempt
ed such general legislation as they
knew could not receive the sanction
of both houses of Congress, or it
passed by both houses, could not
receive the approval of the Executive.
This may be grand politics, but it is
death to trade and industry. Phila.
Hecord.
The sixth new battleship of the
United States navy, the Oregon, has
eclipsed even the world record of her
sister ship, the Massachusetts, in her
speed trial off the Pacific coast. The
latter vessel made the remarkable
average rate of 16.3079 knots an
hour but the preliminary dispatches
credit the Oregon with an achieve
ment of 16.78 knots more than a
full half-knot better than the crack
battleship of the Cramps. The later
official record may prove to be less 5
but at present the Oregon seems to
have won for her builders, the Union
Iron Works, San Francisco, a prem
ium of $175,000. The East doffs its
hat to the West 1
Editor Dana, of the New York Sun,
uses the following terse language in
describing the difference between the
reformers and the so-called bosses.
'The exes and the men that don't get
the nomination are the nucleus of re
form. They are always ready for a
reform movement which will put them
back. The superannuated, the seedy,
the incompetent, the disappointed,
the beaten ; these are the politicians
that become reformers when they get
out of a job. The machine is the men
who are in, and reform is the men
who are out 5 and that's the long and
short of it."
Before our graduates begin their
commencement essays, permit a sug
gestionone that expresses the better
opinion of every community. Don't
submit plans for reforming the uni
verse. Wait a month or two. Don't
dwell too long on questions of political
economy. Your methods may be
good, but the cynical world won't be
lieve you. Don't tell how to win suc
cess in life. It will take you fifty
years to write a good essay on that
subject. In other words, don't talk
about things that other people know
you don't know any thing about.
The Sound Money platform of the
Pennsylvania Democracy adopted at
Allentown seems to have met with
the approving judgment of our fellow
Democrats in other States. New
Jersey readopted it, word for word.
The Democrats of the city of Brooklyn
have also indorsed it, and we do not
doubt it will be substantially approved
by the New York Democratic State
Convention, which will meet in Sara
toga on June 34.
Undesirable Immigrants,
In the month of March nine thous
and Italian immigrants landed at New
York In April the influx continued
at a heavier rate. Three thousand
arrived in two days ; four thousand
more ere known to be on the way,
and from eight to ten thousand were
awaiting shipment at Italian ports.
Financial conditions in Italy and
the dread of being conscripted to
serve in the war with Abyssinia are
causes which in part explain this sud
den accession of Italian immigrants.
Another cause, in the opinion of the
Commissioner oi Immigration at New
York, is the fear that Congress will
enact the proposed law exacting an
educational test of immigrants. The
Itali ans hasten to get into the country
before any measure excluding thcin
can be passed.
About one-half ol the Italian immi
grants arriving at New York this
spring are unable to read or write.
Fifty cents each was found to be the
average sum of money possessed by a
party numbering about one thousand,
who were detained at one time for ex
amination. One in ten only of the
immigrants had a ticket to carry him
beyond New York.
Existing laws direct the enforced
return of immigrants who are likely to
become a public charge, and several
hundred of the Italians were sent back
under that clause j but to many of the
most thoughtful students of American
social and industrial conditions it
seems clear that the present restric
tions should be increased, and the ap
plication of a reading and writing test,
for the purpose ot sifting out and
sending back the illiterate, seems the
form of restriction most consistent
with our institutions.
A Promise Broken,
When the Armenians, who had held
Zeitoun for months against the assaults
of a Turkish army, surrendered last
February, the Turkish government
promised that a Christian governor
should be appointed over the place,
and gave assurances to six signatory
powers that it would keep its word.
Recently, in violation of this promise,
a Mohammedan was commissioned as
governor of Zeitoun. This flagrant
breach of faith revived the concert of
action among the powers which had
been in abeyance for weeks, and the
representatives of Germany, France,
Great Britain, Italy, Russia and Aus
tria presented a joint note of protest
to the Porte.
NATIONAL PROHIBITION CONVEN
TION. Single Faro for the Round Trip to Pittsburg
via Pennsylvania Railroad.
For the National Prohibition Con
vention, to be. held at Pittsburg, Pa.,
May 37, 38, and 39, the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company will sell from May
34 to 36, inclusive, excursion tickets
from all points on its system to Pitts
burg and return, at a single fare for
the round triy (no less rate than 35
cents). These tickets will be good
for return passage until May 30, in
clusive. They must be having lively times at
the Methodist General Conference at
Cleveland. Last Tuesday when it came
to elect publishing agents, for at least
ten minutes there was the greatest
scene of confusion that has yet been
witnessed on the floor of the confer
ence. Twenty or thirty delegates
were on their feet at one time each
shouting for recognition, or bellowing
the name of his favorite candidate.
Rev. Dr. Robert Forbes, of Duluth
said when speaking in regard to
licensing evangelists that"the people
were getting converted too fast.
" In some places all you have to do
is to hold up your hand and sbout
'Come to Jesus' and you are saved.
It will be soon that you may get sav
ed by sending your cabinet photo
graph and having it baptized. Salva
tion will soon be on sale by telephone
and telegraph."
College Changes Hands.
United Evangelicals Secure a Valuable
Educational Institution. . '
After nearly 14 months' delay, the
officers of the Evangelical Association
this week delivered to the United
Evangelical Church the deed for the
Central Pennsylvania College at New
Berlin. The deed embraces all the
franchises and endowments. Rev. Dr.
A. E. Gobble is president of the
college, which is one of the leading
institutions of the Evangelical denomi
nation. Read of the great racket. Every
body is excited, surprised, delighted
at the explosion of prices in clothing
and everything for mens and boys
wear. We came here to sell the
goods, everv dollars worth must be
sold at once no matter what it brings.
11 wm pay you to stop your work and
come now ; even if you are 100 miles
away and get whatever you may
need in the line. Remember the
slaughter that is coiner on now won't
last much longer, so come at once to
tne jjoston Clothing House just open
ed opposite the St. Elmo Hntl
Bloomsburg, Pa. at.
GENERAL NEWS.
JTiulrton w.is visited hy a $roo,ooo fnc
enrly last Friilnv mornine. The Urill Mock
on Hast street was destroyed.
A telegraph message was scut around the
world last Saturday in four minutes.
Will tain t.ochren, formerly Tension Coin-
llli:nhnr line 1im .............. 1 1... .1... t 1
dent United States llistrict Judge to succeed
K. K. Nelson, who has resigned. llominic
I. Murphy, the present Deputy Commission
er, has been appointed Commissioner of
1 1'iiaitms.
Thomas May Tierce,' the founder of Tierce's
Business College at Philadelphia, died last
Saturday morning.
A Methodist revival meeting lasting four
months has just closed at Tottsville.
Washington, D. C, was visited 1y a
$200,000 fire Monday evening in which a
whole block opposite the Smithsonian Insti
tute was burned. Several firemen were buried
in the ruins.
The electric light plant at White Haven
was destroyed by fire Monday night.
Disappointed in love, Thomas Morris of
Nanticoke killed himself.
The fastest battleship is the Oregon. On
her trial trip last Thursday she made sixteen
and seventy-eight one-hundredths knots per
hour, or 19.35 miles. This, it is believed,
breaks all records for vessels of her class.
She is a first-ciassed, full-armored battleship.
At the general conference of the Methodist
Church at Cleveland, the dicipline was
amended so as to allow persons baptised in
infancy to be re-baptised if they desire it.
It is thought that tne change will greatly
help the church. It is claimed that prohibi.
tion of re-banli sm in Methodism has resulted
in large numbers of converts going to the
liaptist church, who would otherwise have
joined the Methodist church.
A movement is on foot to make all the six
toll bridges in Luzerne county free at a cost
of nearly $500,000
The A. P. A. have split on McKinley.
Delegates from twenty states denounced him.
and they have resolved to defeat him. They
accuse him of lying outright to them.
Cyclone Kills Many-
The city of Sherman was visited by one
of the worst cyclones in the history of North
Texas about five o'clock last Friday evening.
The path of the wind was 150 yards wide.
It struck the city at the west end of Tost
Oak creek and swept in a westerly direction
for several blocks and then spread and spent
its force. The track of the cyclone is a
gruesome sight, the devastation being com
plete, houses, trees, fences, in fact every
thing in its path was destroyed. The loss of
life will probably reach loo, with as many
more bruised and wounded. The city halt
and the store room formerly occupied by S.
C. Holmes have been turned into temporary
hospitals, and eighteen bruised, mangled and
mutilated bodies are awaiting identification.
At these two places at this writing nearly
every house in Fairview addition has been
turned into a hospital.
It is said the cyclone struck the ball park
while a game was in progress and that part
of the Sherman and San Antonio teams and
many spectators were killed. All telegraph
wires to Sherman have been down since 4.3a
There are various gentlemen seek
ing political nominations whose candi
dacy has not been mentioned in this
paper. This is because they have not
placed a card in the Columbian an
nouncing the fact, and we take it for
granted they desire to keep it secret
from our readers, and we beg to as
sure them that their wishes shall be
respected.
5 Sores
In combination, proportion and
process Hood's Sarsaparilla is peculiar
to itself, and unequalled in true merit.
No other medicine ever possessed so
much curative power, or reached such
enormous sales, or made such won
derful cures, as Hood's Sarsaparilla.
It is undoubtedly the best medicine
ever made to purify, vitalizo and en
rich the blood.
That is the secret of its success.
Read this statement:
" When my son wae 7 years of age, he
had rheumatlo fever and acute rheuma
tism, which settled In hie left hip. He
was 10 sick that no one thought there was
any help for him. Five sores broke out
on hla thigh, which the doctor said were
Sciroffullsi
ores. We had three different doctors.
Pieces ot bone came out of the lores. -The
last doctor said the leg would have to be
out open and the bone scraped, before he
oould get well. Howard became so low
that he would eat nothing, and one doo
tor aald there was no chance for him.
" One day, a newspaper recommending
Hood's Sarsaparilla was left at our door.
We decided to try this medicine. Howard
commenced taking it the last ot February,
after having been sick tor a year and a
half. He hadn't taken It a week before I
aaw that hie appetite began to improve,
and then he gained rapidly. I gave him
five bottles, when the sores were all healed
and they never broke out again. The
crutches he had used for four years were
laid aside, as he had no further use for
them. I give all the credit to Hood's Sar
saparilla." Mrs. Ada I Moody, Fay
Btreet, Lynn, Mass.
This and many similar cures prove that
InloOCll'S
Sarsaparilla
Is the One True Blood Turlfler. All druggists. II.
Prepared only by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.
u . i-vsii cure Liver Ills; easy to
Mood S Fills take, easy to operate, 2&0.
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SUITS 9
FROM SIC. GO. E
When a big circus visits a commun
ity the people are simply helpless.
Though one has seen the show twenty
times before, and knows that if he
goes he will see the same thing over
again he has seen twenty times betore,
he goes nevertheless. A circus par
ade sets a boy wild with delight, and
is equally effective with the grown
people in the matter of the half dollars.
SHERIFF'S SALE.
Dy virtue of a writ of Fl. Fa., Issued out of
the Court of Common Pleas of Columbia county,
Pa., there will be exposed to publlo salo at tlie
court House lu Bloomsburg, on
SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1896,
at 3 o'clock p. m., all that certain piece or par
cel of land situate in the Borough of Berwick,
county ot Columbia and State of Pennsylvania,
bounded and described as follows, to-wlt: Be
ginning at a point on Grant Btreet at the cor
ner of an alley; thence westwardly along said
alloy and parallel with Third street, a distance
ofono hundred and twenty feet to an alley
parallel with (J rant street; thence northwardly
along said alley a distance ot forty feet to a lot
owned by Charles E. Ross: thence eastwardly
along said lot one hundred and twenty feet to
Ornnt street aforesaid; thence southwardly
along said street a distance of forty feet to the
place of beginning, whereon is erected a two
story FRAME DWELLING HOUSE,
and outbuildings.
Seized, taken Into execution at the suit of
Swayze ft Co. vs. Samuel W. Henry, and to be
sold as the property ot Samuel W. Henry.
Evans, Atty. J. B. McUEMlY,
Sheriff.
SHERIFF'S SALE.
By virtue of a writ of Fl. Fa., issued out of
the Court of Common Pleas of Columbia county
Pennsylvania, and to me directed, there will
be exposed to public sale at the Court House
In Bloomsburg, Pa., on
SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1896,
at 2 o'clock p. m., all the following described
messuage, piece or parcel of land, situate in
the township of Franklin, county of Columbia,
and State ot Pennsylvania, bounded and de
scribed as follows to-wlt: Beginning at a stone
corner of lands of heirs of William Keedor and
lands of Peter Vought; thence west seven and
three-tenths rods to beech stump; thence by
lands of Peter Vought south, eighty and three
fourth degrees west thlrty-slx rods to Btone.
thence by same north eighty-nine and seven
eighth degrees west ninety-nine and three-tenth
rods to pine knot; thence by same south three
fourth degrees west nfty-nlne and three-tenths
rods to stone In publlo road; thence by said
publlo road south eighty-eight and three-fourth
degrees east fourteen and seven-tenths rods to
stone In public road; thence by land ot Theo
dore Pensyl south, seven degrees east thirty
nine and two-tenth rods to stone; thence by
same north, seventy-nine and one-half degrees
east thirty-two and a halt rods to stone; thence
by same north seventy-two degrees cast fifty
two and one-halt rods to chestnut stump;
thence by same south seventy-five and one
halt degrees east ten and one-half rods to stone;
thence by lands ot heirs of William Boeder,
north twenty and one-half degrees east ninety
and three-tenths rods.to stone corner, the place
ot beginning, containing
65 ACRES,
and one hundred and twenty perches ot land
whereon are erected a two-story
FRAME DWELLING HOUSE,
barn, wagon shed and out-bulldlngg. Fine
peach orchard and fruit trees.
Seized, taken into execution at the sult ot
Simon Vought, administrator ot the estate ot
Theodore Pensyl, deceased, vs. Frank Camp
bell, and to be sold as the property ot Frank
Campbell.
J. B. McHENHY,
Bntdkr, Atty. Sheriff.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
Estate of Mary J. Vantuirn, late of Hemlock
luwiumtp, aeceasea.
Notice is liereliu oiventliat letter nrndminu.
tratlon on lite nutate of Mary J. Vanhorn, late of
Mimnwn, .uM'rtamp urcvriwu, nave oeen granted
to the unaemlgnea admintntrat-jr to minnanii
persona indebted to aid estate rj requested to
make paymmtt, and those having claims or
demands will make known tlie same without
aetay to
Grant Herring, Atty.
B. W. SHADE,
Administrator,
Schuyler,
Montour Co.
Pa.
German-American Investment Co.
FOUNDED 189S.
62 Wall St.. New York.
(Undor supervision of Banking Department of
the Htate of New York.)
Authorized Capital, - . . 11.000 000
j-uiu up l urn tin, .... funouon
. ... . lu.na u i iii m uu f or
eign Countries at cheapest rauis.
Drni.i.1 i-vbuib trunHiers ana an other
money transactions with Uermany and Austria-
and soli ' ' ""'"
Foreign monfiV. tmnlr nntna nnAa Yw,..,.v.t
bankers wanted as agents In various towns,
4-30-tt. d.
Removed !
SCHUYLER'S
HARDWARE,
TO
Evans' ZOloclr,
MAIN and IRON 8T8.
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BLOOMSBURG PA.
There is a Push to
It's a wide awake, broad guage, up-to-date shop keeping
that's doing it.
Tliis means much to you.
We're protecting a reputation. That it is a good one is
evidenced by the many new business friends we are making, and
each succeeding day shows an increased following.
Watch your buying interests just now, for here is a store full
of bright May merchandise for you to select from.
Here's a wash dress goods stock
that any store might be proud of.
Have used some of our best dry goods
intelligence in gathering it together for
you. None but worth weaves; we
emphasize the styles, qualities and
prices, especially prices, as that is
what moves them so rapidly.
Amazon lawns, in exclusive patterns
IOC.
Worth I2c.
Organd de Beauvals, one of the prettiest of
wash goods 1 5c.
Madras cloths, just the thing for shirt
waists 18c.
Dimities; you know what these goods are,
one pattern, exclusively our own,
25c, 28c, 35c.
Hosiery as We Sell it
Is a satisfaction to the purchaser. None
but the honest, durable sorts. Not at
half their worth but just their actual
value. You have confidence when
you can buy thus. You're not hunt
ing something for nothing, as you
know as well as we do that you can't
get it.
Men's bicycle hose, extra long, extra strong
double, high spliced heel
2oe.
Sell everywhere but here, for 25c.
Men's drop stitch, lisle thread, half hose in
tan and black
eoc.
Ladies' absolutely fast black high spliced
heel hose
25c.
Children's half hose, in white and black,
just what you want for summer
15 and 25c
No Let Up
to the dress goods selling. Those
who have bought tell friends where
they have bought; thats good adver
tizing. You will travel a long way,
inspect many a stock, before you will
find one that compares with ours.
Novelties, in all the fashionable designs, out
in dress pattern lengths,
$1.00
Reduced from $1.35.
Mohair, crepons and serges in black for sep- J
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
FOR
FINE
SPRING
MILLINERY
GO TO
.1 1.
NEXT DOOR TO SALTZKR'g MUSIC STORK.
The "TWIN COMET" and"LITTLE GIANT"
Lawn Sprinklers,
BEST MADE.
Unique, Efficient, Labor Sav
ins:. Will sprinkle 4 times
greater area than any other
bprinklers made.
Highest Award at the Chicago
Exposition.
Can be seen in operation at residence oftlieKdl-
mrv mts paper, corner ura aim Market tits.,
Bloomsburv,
Sendjfor circulars giving testimonials
ana prices.
E. Stebbins Mfg. Co.,
tiULtt MAflUrACTUUKKS,
Sorinsfleld. Mass.
rir-Agcnoy forllloomsburir at tuo COLUMBIAN
omue. - sjmim
GET YOUR
Mrs
Watson
JOB PRINTING
DONE AT THE
COLUMBIAN OFFICE
ma
Hatter.
TROUSERS
FROM S5.00.
this Business.
arate skirts,
50c. to $1.25.
Novelties that are all right in every respect,
will bear the closest inspection, reduced to
29c
Were 42c. and 50c the yd.
More Laundried Waists
dumped at our doors fresh from the
makers. They'll keep the ball rolling
for some time. Fit, style, price and
good "wash tub" qualities these are
some of the characteristics of our
laundried waists. You'll buy them
when you see them; won't quote prices
here, but want you to see them.
Dishes.
When you buy any thing, you want
to go where the largest assortment is,
and where you get good goods for
your money. We don't sell trashy
goods in anything, And dishes are no
exception. We will guarantee every
dish we sell against crazing. That's
worth something is it not ? Sell decor
ated dishes same a? white. Pick what
you want. Will match your set up for
you any time you like it at little cost
to you. Chamber sets in endless
variety and quality. Think of it, a
12 piece chamber set. china at $7.ca.
Can't buy them wholesale for that.
Groceries.
We are always up to the times in
the way of supplying you with what
you need. Especially so in the grocery
department We want your trade and
if prices, quality of goods, etc., will
get it we will have it.
Armor's Star sliced bacon in lb. tins
l$c
Beach nut sliced bacon in 1 lb. boxes
25c.
Imported Swiss cheese, 30c
Albert biscuits, put up in I lb. cartoons, tins
35c
No Tox, one of the most pleasant of summer
drinks, in 3 sizes of bottles, 10c., 25c, 50c
All you want to drink free here at our
store.
wm
It may be a little early to do
your spring papering, but not
too early to look over our
large stock now ready for your
inspection. In spite of the fact
that the manutacturers charge
us from i o to 20 per cent, more
than last year, we will sell at
last year's low prices, and in
somecases even lower.
Window curtains of all kinds?
Room and picture moulding
always in stock.
WILLIAM H. SLATS
I2CHANQS HOTEL BLD9.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
Estate of William Beck, Sr., late of Centre Town.
mis . mj,
The undersigned awttlor appointed by tlm
3J.l.Ti w wamuia. vuwuy, la report
autritmHoniirthshalatu in the liana of Will
.11 . T . JI" aamt"ilratorQfsaidKtaUi, vM
f i ?? uVk tn Bloomsburg, on Saturday, June
J?! 1 ' 10 o'1'' i" theformuiua, when and
Where all persons having claims against said
estate must appear and prove tlie same or be
(Lot q, U A MCKILLIP,
Mi-Mi Auattur.