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THURSDAY,-JULY 16, 1896.
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BRIEF MENTION.
About People Tou hAow.
Mr. Br. J. II. IIiigenlacli, of Mahonoy
City, Is tlic guest of Mrs. S. F. Teacock.
Mrs. Sarah Dcyo, of Omaha, Nebraska
is visiting the family of C. V. Miller Kxj.
Hon. C. K. liuckalcw, transacted business
at Washington, D. C. on Tuesday.
George Krig of Williamsport, attended to
business in this place last Tuesday.
Mrs. Warren J. Buckalew and son Frank
of AUcntown, attended the I'liillips Knt
wedding Tuesday evening.
Kev. (. M. Klcpfer of Catawissa preached
in the Methodist tabernacle last Sunday
morning.
J. D. Bodine Ei., one of the Justice pf
the Peace ot Catawissa transacted business
at the county ieat on Monday.
Taul R. Eyerly, one of the clerks at the
llloomsburg post office, starts on his vacation
next Saturday. lie will visit his friend
George K. Weeks at New York City.
Casper Krcsjler was eighty years old on
Monday, and is still hale and hearty, tie
makes ice cream as good as ever, and sells
lots ot it.
John O. Il irman Esq., has been appoint
ed Deputy District Attorney, by District
Attorney llanly, and the appointment has
been approved by the Court. Mr. Harman
will have charge of the criminal business at
the September sessions.
The large hat predominates.
The trout season clorcd yesterday.
The baggage smasher is in his glory,
The undertaker's business is dead.
Easy to see into a looking glass,
Duck trousers
plentiful.
are becoming very
What we have and don t want a
poor fire alarm system.
When you want anything read, put
it in the Columbian.
The hay-day of the
county farmer is here.
Columbia
Manufacturers in Western Penn
sylvania expect a tin plate boom.
A Bloomsburg young man has
$100. He doesn't know whether to
buy a bicycle or get married.
The trustees of the State Hospital
near Ashland have elected Dr. George
Reese an assistant surgeon.
Water melons are here again to
tickle the palate and torture the
stomach.
Hood's Sarsaparilla purifies the
blood, overcomes that tired feeling,
creates an appetite, and gives refresh'
ing sleep.
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Everett of Mt,
Carmel lost their little son Francis,
aged six months, last Saturday. The
remains were brought here on Mon
day for burial.
The Rorer Club returned from
their camping trip on Tuesday morn
ing. They came home in Buckalew's
big hack, and announced their arrival
by blowing horns and a general din.
Did you ever see a "reformer" who
did not need to be reformed himself,
or that ever reformed the thing which
he pretended was wrong and needed
to be righted?
The Annual Farmer's picnic will
be held at Wynona Park on Thurs
day July 30. Should the weather be
unfavorable it will be held on the tol
lowing day. Prominent speakers will
be in attendance.
Cleveland. Stearns, Keating,
Envoy and Stormer Bicycles.
Latest U. S. Gov't Report
Powder
The School Directors of Centralis
were removed from office last Satur
day for failure to organize.
C. G. Barkley, Esq., is making cr-
rangements to lay an Ohio stone
pavement around his property at the
corner of Fourth and Market streets.
Washington Camp No. 319, P. O.
S. of A. will hold their annual picnic
Vallamont Park on August isi.
Extra picparation have been made to
make this an enjoyable occasion.
Did you ever see a man running for
office in the interest of the "dear
people" who did not think himself the
dear people r Think about it and
see if it is not true.
The State Board of Pardons is said
to be disposed to recommend John
Bardsley, ex-treasurer of Philadelphia,
for executive clemency; but there
are serious doubts whether the Gov
ernor would approve the recommenda
tion.
The editor of this paper and his
family spent last Sunday at Proctor
Inn, Jamison City. No more de-
ightful place can be found. There
was a cool breeze all day on the broad
verandas, though down on the level
it was intensely hot. Landlord Howe"
and his wife know how to make it
pleasant for their guests.
The town council has passed an
ordinance forbidding the riding of
bicycles on the streets of the town at
a more rapid rate than six miles aa
hour, and requiring every wheel to
have a bell which iust be rung at
every street crossing. 1 his is very
proper action, though it is placing a
penalty on the many on account ot
the recklessness of ? few.
An exchange says farmers' institutes
in this State this season are to include
in most places a series of lectures on
cooking, by some woman wao is an
authority upon the subject, and it is
proposed that farmers' wives and other
women in attendance shall noia at
least one session which shall be ex
clusively devoted to topics of interest
to them.
Jefferson's question was "Is he
honesUs he competent r An in
competent officer ia as great a menace
to efficient pubhc service as a dishon
est one. Has yc.r candidate had
experience in the business of the office
to which he aspires ? If not, do not
put the county to the shame a.id
trouble of having a lot ofincompeteui
and inexperienced public officials.
Think now while it is yet time.
Childrens' Day was observed in the
Lutheran church on last Sabbath in
the morning. The exercises, con
ducted by W. H. Brooke, Supt., were
held in the audience room. The
main part of the program was by the
children, consisting of solos, choruses,
recitations and dialogues. The day
was fine, everybody in good humor
and all Dassed off pleasantly, with a
good collection for the benefit of the
Church Orphan Home ofLoysville,
Pa.
Coal operators and dealers predict
an advance of from fifty cents to $1.25
per ton in the price of coal within the
next two months. There is no way
to prevent this and the best thing for
the consumer to do is to purchase his
winter stock now. Vlie best time to
buy coal is duri.ig the summer when
the cleanest and best quality can be
secured. The mines not being busy
during the summer, more care is ex
ercised in removing the dirt and slate.
By purchasing coal now it will mean
a considerable saving to the consumer.
Wanted Competent woman for
general house work. Must be good,
plain cook and ironer. Wages $a.7S-
Also careful girl for nurse and cham
bermaid, $1.75. References required.
James Magee, Box 408, Bloomsburg.
W. S. EISIITON. Afft.
Opposite Post Office.
THE MEANING OF TRET! COINAGE
bXPLAINEU-
Director of the Miut Preston Telle How to
Turn Bullion Into Dollars.
Director of the Mint Preston was
asked exactly what might occur when
any one has the right to take bullion
to the mint for coinage, the character
of the metal that can be presented,
what the mode of procedure would be,
the cost of the coinage, the amount
that would be returned to the person
submitting the metal for government
stamp and the official interpretation
of the term " sixteen to one."
"Until there has been legislation
carrying out in detail the general plan
of the free coinage of silver, such as
contemplated by the platform at
Chicago, Mr. Preston replied, "it
will, of course, be impossible to des
cribe accurately just what will have to
be done. I can only explain to you
generally what the routine would be,
based on experience gained before
the repeal of the Sherman law, and
upon what free coinage of silver is
generally interpreted to mean. In the
first place, silver in any form, if not
too base for the operation of the
mints, will be received from anybody
and coined into silver dollars or bars
free of charge, except the cost of the
alloy employed, which is two cents
per ounce.
"The word 'unlimited, as used in
the Chicago platform, means that
there shall be no restriction as to the
amount of bullion permitted to be
received and coined. Unless by legis
lation the coinage of silver should be
limited to American product, our
mints would be open to all the silver
in the world, and it may safely be
stated that without such a restriction
the United States would within a few
years have the surplus silver of the
world. By surplus I mean all the
silver not used by other nations as
subsidiary coin.
CAN TAKE ANY OLD SILVER.
"Under a tree silver law any one
possessing old silver spoons, silver
ware, or anything else containing
silver, would have the privilege of
taking such articles to the mints and
having them coined into silver dollars
It is not to be expected, however,
that the mints will be called upon to
perform much work of this character.
It will be the smelters and refiners
who will do most of this work
" There is a mistaken notion as to
the class of people who take bullion
to the mints to be coined. It is gen
erally supposed that mine owners do
this. As a rule they do i.ot. Their
work is confined to taking ore from
the mines and selling it to the smelt
ing and refining establishments. There
are about a dozen of these establish
ments now in operation, and with a
free coinage law, of course, the num
ber will greatly increase. There are
two in Denver, Col. : one each in
Leadville, Col.; Omaha, Neb.; Kansas
City, Kan.; Perth Amboy and New
ark, N. J.; Fittsburg, Penna.; Chicago,
III.; San Francisco, Cal., and one in
course of erection in Idaho, from
these establishments would come
ninety per cent, of all the bullion that
would be sent to the mints to be
coined.
"To avoid embarrassment to the
mints by those having small quanti
ties of old silverware, it is probable
that bullion of less value than $100
will not be received, as provided in
the old coinage law. This will be
the routine pursued in the matter of
having bullion coined into money
"It will be taken in person or ship
ped direct to the respective mints. It
will be weighed in the presence of the
depositor or his agent, and the weight
be verified by the register of deposits.
The weigh clerk and register will then
enter in their respective books the
name of the depositor, number and
date of each deposit, kind of bullion,
weight before melting, and, if it can
be ascertained, the state or country
from which it is derived. The deposi
tor will then be given a receipt for the
value of his deposit, if it is of such
character that its value can be ascer
tained before melting.
NO WAITING FOR THE MONEY,
" From the weight of the bullion
after melting and the report of the as-
sayer as to fineness, the value of such
deposit and the amount of charges
will be computed, and a detailed
statement given to the depositor,
When the depositor presents his re
ceipt and the certificate for the net
value he will sign the receipt, and the
co'n or bars will then be paid to him.
"It is not to be presumed, however,
that under a free coinage law a person
presenting bullion would have to wait
for his money until the material which
he has presented had actually been
coined. All that will be necessary
will be to wait until the actual value
of his bullion is ascertained. Nor is
it to be presumed that any great num
ber of people will go to the mints for
their silver dollars. The chances are
that you will not find any more cart
wheel dollars in circulation under a
free silver law than there are now,
The coin is too cumbersome. The
people may want free silver, but they
would rather have a government paper
equivalent for it than its actual weight
in metal.
"The result will be that silver cer
tificates will be authorized to take the
place of the silver dollar, and the
United States treasury will have to be
a storehouse for the bulk of the metal.
This will bring up the question of in
creased vault room at the treasury
and sub-treasuries. Our vaults in the
treasury are now overcrowded, and
there is no space left for erecting ad
ditional vaults. A new treasury build
ing may, therefore, be in order, not
to speak of the additional mints that
will be necessary. We now have
mints located at Philadelphia, San
Francisco, New Orleans and Carson
City. The latter has been closed for
some time. A free coinage law will
mean the construction of at least half
a dozen additional mints.
"The term 'sixteen to one' means
that the pure silver in the standard
dollar weighs about sixteen times as
much as the pure gold in the gold dollar.
A silver dollar now contains 371.25
grains of silver, while a gold dollar
contains 23.22 grains of gold. At the
time of the establishment of the
United States mints Congress agreed
that the ratio between silver and gold
should be as fifteen pounds to one
pound, this being at that time the rel
ative values of the two metals. It
was subsequently found that this ratio
gave too high a value to silver. It
was accordingly changed to sixteen to
one.
FIFTY-THREE CENT DOLLARS.
By this action Congress jumped
on the other side of the stream. In
European countries the ratio had been
fixed at fiifteen and a half to one. As
a result the silver owners of the United
States shipped all their product to
Europe for coinage, and, until 1873,
when the revision of the coinage laws
occurred, only about eight millions of
silver dollars had been coined. Under
the Bland-Allison Act, four hundred
million silver dollars were coined, and
these added to the notes issued under
the Sherman Act make the total
amount ot silver in currency more
than five hundred millions, all on a
sixteen to one ratio.
"At the present time the value of
silver in the markets of the world is
about thirty pounds of the white rrjet-
al to one of gold. Our people would
therefore, under the ratio of sixteen
to one, have fifty-three cent dollars,
which might circulate for their face
value in the United States, but which
would only be accepted at their bullion
value abroad.
" Unless Congress enacts some
special provision preventing it, the
nations of ihe world, in case a free
coinage law is placed on the statute
books, can ship all their bullion to the
United States for coinage. Here it
will receive the government stamp and
will be used to buy American goods
at half price, while Americans will
have to pay the full rate for them.
"There is this danger of our trade
being injured. At present silver is
admitted free of duty in the United
States. Treasury officials say that
unless Congress placed a high tariff
on the white metal, so as to prohibit
its importation, the nations ot the
world would make the United States
the dumping ground for their silver,
retaining only a sufficient quantity of
the metal in their circulation to act as
subsidiary coin."
Eagles Mere Chautauqua-
We are in receipt of a very nicely
gotten up publication called the
Eagles Mere Chautauqua in which is
presented a program of the schools of
instruction and lectures at the well
known summer resort. The following
liberal proposition is made to the
school teachers of Centre, Clinton,
Lycoming, Union, Northumberland,
Sullivan, Columbia, Tioga, Clearfield,
Montour, Luzerne, Wyoming and
Bradford: Any person subscribing
for the paper and paying 25 cents
shall be entitled to one vote for each
subscription. The public school
teacher living in any of the above
counties who receives the largest num
ber of votes shall be entitled to attend
the Eagles Mere Chautauqua four
weeks free of all charge, including
railroad fare, the second highest to
three weeks, the third highest to two
weeks and the fourth highest to one
week. The person who solicits the
greatest number of subscriptions shall
also be entitled to Jour weeks stay,
Subscrintions must be paid for in
advance and sent to the editor, Rev
N. H. Schenck, Lock Haven, prior to
July 25, 1896.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
The attention of the ladies of
Bloomsburg is called to the large
line of shirt waists now on sale at the
Bloomsburg Store Company limited.
For a cool and refreshing drink try
our milk shake. I. G. Deitrick.
Hot soup lunch every day from 9
to 1 a o'clock noon at the Enterline
restaurant, formerly owned by William
Gilmore.
Protect vour horses from the flies
by buying a net from C. S. Furman.
You will find the prices rignt.
Have you tried Deitricn's ice cream?
If not, why not.
RIGHT
"We are offering the best values of the season in . dress
goods and all summer goods. Your opportunity of buying
good goods for little money was never greater.
Shirt Waists and Wrappers.
Any waist or wrapper in our store,
$1.00, your choice now for 75c.
Wash Dress Goods.
Almost anything you might want,
inciian iwim, lormer price 15c, now oc.
Indian Dimities, former price 25c, now i6Jc.
Persian Dimities, former price 17c, now iajc.
A lot of 10, is, 180. wash goods, now 6c. yd.
And many other lots at reduced prices.
Dress Linens.
These goods are most popular and
on our remaining stock. Linens for
Summer corsets, 32c, 44c. and 59c.
Chamois gloves, 85c.
Kid curlers, 5 and 10c.
Side combs, 10c. pair. Curling irons,
Fans from ic. up. Glovme, 22c. bottle,
Toilet soaps of all kinds. Try our new
Chenille table covers. 37c.
Derby curtains. Extra good Dado and
Japanese bambo and bead porticr?, 90c.
Ladies fast black hose, 5c. pair.
Ladies' seamless black hose, 10c. pair.
Ladies' silk hose supporters with belt,
Turkish towels, sc. piece.
Ladies' ribbed vests, 5c. upwards.
Try our $1.00 kid gloves.
Ribbons Galore.
Any shade you want any color.
ribbons. Big value in black satin ribbons. See them.
H. J. CLARK & SON.
I. W. ItlTUI &
It is Hot Possible to Hit Two Marks With the Same
Shot, Neither is it Possible to Impress Customers With
Winter and Summer Goods in One Advertisement
Such being the case we make this fire in favor of Thin
Dress Goods, for warm July and
reduced Shirt Waists.
Have vou seen our Batistes,
Lawns, Mulls, Jaconetts, DrcVs
and Challies, since they were
reduced in price. Tae cut is
great in single dress patterns
from (iTA yds. to izya yds. ana
less. Many of them enough
only for shirt waists. They
are selling. Act quick-
The wrappers at 59c. and the
$1,25 ones now at 98c. will be
cool for an afternoon these hot
days.
The early closing is still in the wind. In the meantime -we
keep right along closing our doors sharp at 8 o'clock, no differ
ence what others do. .
!. W- HARTMAN & SON.
Si-Sa-S5lOT
Silver Polish.
When you want it, remember
HESS BROS, have the
best to be found. Liquid pol
ish or powder, at
HESS
Up-Town
Bloomsburg
Lewis Lyons invites you to call and
examine his meat and get prices. He
can please you both as to quality pnd
price. His rapidly increasing trade
proves that the people of L'oomsbrrg
know a good thing when h:y ;:e it.
For the best Ice Cream call on I
G. Deitrick.
You can find just what you want at
Lewis Lyons the up town butcher,
and at prices which will astonish you.
Hats and caps in endless variety at
the Bloomsburg Store Company limit
ed. They are all of the latest style
and will be sold at a small margin
above cost.
For choice candies try I. G. Dei
trick's. Japanese porch screens, all sizps,
and at extremely low prices. Put up
ready for use free of charge, at W. H.
Slate's.
The Bloomsburg Car Company
store is now displaying the finest line
of decorated and toilet sets ever shown
in the town, and they are being sold
at exceedingly low prices.
Fly nets in endless variety and at
prices which defy competition at C S.
Furman's.
NOW.
no matter if they were $1.50, $1.75
and then at little prices.
we have made a reduction in price
skirts. See them.
3, 5 and 10c.
5c. bar.
frieze, T3.00 pair.
23c.
White ribbons, all kinds. Taffeta
August, not forgetting 100
Fans, Belts, Belt Buckles,
Studs, Belt Pins, and a case
full of all that style of notion.
Mitts, Gloves, Ties, Bowq,
Summer Corsets, Thin Hoee,
Laces, Ribbons, &c.
We are headquarteis for fins
China and Japanese Dishes,
Plates, Cups, and a fine line of
glassware for weddiDg and
birthday presents.
Fo - Fol - PoMsh.
Silver Polish.
BROS.
Jewelers,
Penaa.
Some people think that bread is
bread. This is not true, as some k
good, and some poor. The kind
baked and sold by William Rehm u
the best. Try it and be convinced.
For the freshest and nicest line of
groceries in the town, call at trie
Bloomsburg Store Company, limited.
A new invoice is received every day.
It is too hot to cook. Lewis Lyons
can save you the trouble as he has
full line of all kinds of smoked meats,
and canned goods. Sliced dried beef
a specialty.
Now is the time to purchase lap
robes for the coming season. C. S.
Furman has them, and at prices
which would astonish you.
Japanese porch screens, all sizes,
and at extremely low prices. Put up
ready for use free of charge, at W. H.
Slate's.
A large invoice of boots and shoe,
just received at the Bloomsburg Store
Company limited. They are being
sold at astonishingly low prices.
Try a can of Htfpkir.s' Steamed
Hominy (Hulled Corn.) It is delicious.
Full qt., ioc. $-?5-4t