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ESTABLISHED 1866.
* Columbia gjcmofrat,
*STABU.ISnED 1887. CONSOLIDATED 1889.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING
liloomsburg, the County seat of Columbia
County, Pennsylvania.
..80. E. ELWELL EniTOit.
D. J. TASKER, LOCAL EDITOR.
GEO. C. ROAN, FOREMAN.
TERMS:— lnside the county SI.OO a year In ad
vance; $1.50 If not paid In advance Outside
he county, $1.25 a year, strictly In advance.
All communications should be addressed to
THE COLUMBIAN,
liloomsburg, Pa.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1898.
Great Britain refused to agree to
our proposed international treaty pro
hibiting either American or British
subjects from hunting seals in the openj
sea at present. In return for this the
sealing bill passed by our congress,
signed by President McKinley and
now a law will exactly hit Great Brit
ain for her churlish refusal to help us
protect the seals. ,It prohibits the im
portation into this country of Bering
sea sealskins. The greatest market
for these skins is the United States,
where people have more money than
in most countries. Canadians were in
the habit of slaughtering wholesale
our seals, sending the skins to London
and having them dressed and dyed
and then selling them to us for the
cloaks of American ladies. Now, no
matter how many seals they catch,
Canadians cannot sell the skins to us.
Their best market is cut off, and it
serves them right.
Plainly But Truly Spoken-
At a meeting of Cuban sympathizers
in Philadelphia last week to condemn
Spain's deceptive offer of autonomy,
Col. A. K. McClure came so near the
truth as to express tt exactly in regard
to that matter when he said that the
autonomy which Spain would give the
Cubans is "a fraud in nearly every
feature." This is true for the reason
that this Spanish scheme does not
include a single feature of true home
rule, and even if it were not object
ionable on that account so little reli
ance can be placed in the sincerity ol
Spanish promises that the Cubans can
justifiably reject the offer of terms
1 which they know will not be kept.
And in another respect Col. McClure
made no mistake when he condemned
the course which our government has
pursued, and continues to pursue, in
not requiring that Spain shall observe
the usages of civilized warfare in the
hostility she is waging against a people
who are exercising the same right to
rebel against oppression as was claim
ed by our forefathers when they re
volted against British tyranny.— Ex.
To Advance the Cost of Living,
Prosperity is on the way. The price
of nails, thread, hose, tinware, rubber,
enameled ware, machinery, and bread
are to be advanced by the Trusts,
while the Dingley tariff wid advance
all wearing material in the Spring, or
as soon as wool importations are
necessitated. Here is a short list of
recent combines and organizations of
capital to corner the products most in
use:
1. Wire nail trust, capital $70,000,-
000.
2. Machinery trust, capital $60,-
000,000.
3. Enameled ironware trust, capital
$10,000,000.
4. Beer trust, capital $60,000,000.
5. English thread trust, capital
$50,000,000.
6. Cotton hose trust, capital $25,-
000,000.
7. Biscuit trust, capital $30,000,-
000.
8. Tinware stamping trust, capital
$25,000,000.
9. Rubber goods trust, capital s?o,-
000,000.
It will doubtless be asserted that if
manufacturers obtain better prices for
their products that better wages will
be paid. Does any one believe it ?
Wages is the last thing to advance,
and 99 times out of 100 only through
strikes. While we trust such will not
.be the case, in our opinion the next
twelve months will see great unrest
among labor, and serious trouble
through efforts to obtain better re
muneration or resist further reductions.
—Scran/on Times.
Hovel Bill Collecting-
A man to whom a small debt is
owed has taken a novel way to collect
it. After blowing the debtor up on
the street in the presence of passers
by and street loafers, he accosts him
whenever he sees him. If the debtor
notices him he credits him with so
ma.iy cents for recognition. If he
doesn't notice him at all-jt is one cent
I credit. After each meeting the credi
' tor sends in a new bill with the proper
credits.
—Senator Quay says he will not
move his home from Beaver.
THIS YEAE.
This year 1898 commenced on
Saturday and of course will close on
Saturday—years that are not leap
year always commences and end on
the same day of the week. There
will be six eclipses during the year,
three of the sun and three of the
moon. Only two of them are of any
interest in this locality. The dates of
the eclipses are : Partial eclipse of
the moon, January 7, visible ; total
eclipse ol the sun, January 22, in
visible in North America ; partial
eclipse of the moon, July 3, invisible ;
annualar eclipse of the sun, July 18,
visible in the South Pacific ; partial
eclipse of the sun, December 13,
visible in the Southern Ocean ; total
eclipse of the moon, December 23,
visible in this country. Both the
eclipses visible here occur at a favor
able time for observation.
The holidays of the year will fall
on the following days of the week :
New Years on Saturday ; Washing
ton's birthday on Tuesday ; Decora
tion Day on Monday ; July 4th on
Monday ; Labor day on Monday,
September 3 ; election day on Tues
day, November 8, the very latest date
on which it can possibly fall ; Thanks
giving on the 29th of the same month,
and Christmas on Sunday.
The church seasons, or the most
important ones, fall as follows : Ash
Wednesday, the first day of Lent, will
be on February 24. The penitential
season will close on Palm Sunday,
Aprd 3, when Holy Week commences,
closing the following Sunday, April
10, which will be Easter Sunday.
Last year Easter came about a week
later. Ascension Day is May 19,
Whit Sunday May 29, and Trinity
Sunday June 5, when the flowers will
fill the fields and gardens.
August is the only month in the
year which will bring five changes in
the moon. The moon will be full on
the first and last days of the month,
therefore it sholud be a month of
plenty of moonlight, which vacation
ists will greatly appreciate.
Commencing February 15th, Venus
will be the evening star until Decem
ber 1. She will attain great brilliancy
during the spring and summer.
LTATti NfIWS,
—Joel Davidson, of Mahoning
Valley, has been missing since Dec
ember 21. Foul play is suspected.
—Centre County farmers will try
to grow peaches. More .lian 10,000
trees have been planted during the
past six months.
—The returns from the triennial
assessments show 57,141 taxables in
Berks Couuty.
—A $450,000 syndicate has as
sumed control of the rm'k business of
Scranton, absorbing all the smaller
dealers.
—Joseph Baker, aged 72, Friday
evening at Pittsburg married Anna
Gray, aged 70. Both live at New
Kensington, Pa. This is the third
time the groom has been married,
and is the fourth experienc; for the
bride. The old people were acquaint
ances when they were children, but
got separated and had not met for
fifty years until one day last spring.
—Mahanoy City will vote at the
February election on a proposition to
increase the borough's indebtedness
SBO,OOO, the funds to be used for
street paving.
—The Pennsylvania railroad com
pany has placed an order for 100,000
tons of steel rails with five different
companies, as follows : Pennsylvania
steel company and Cambria iron com
pany 25,000 tons each; Carnegie
steel company, 30,000 tons ; Lacka
wanna iron company, 5,000 tons, and
the Illinois steel company, 15,000
tons. The rails will be of the 100
pound standard size, and will be used
in building new lines and replacing
old rails. The size of the order is
gratifying to the steel industry, as the
company's corresponding order of last
year was only for 40,000 tons.
Superior Oourt Changes.
Plan to Do Away With the Sessions in
Williamsport and Scranton.
It has just come to light that the
committee of the State Bar associa
tion, which met at Lancaster on Dec.
29, has under consideration a bill to
be introduced at the next session of
the legislature, modifying and chang
ing the act creating the superior court.
This bill is intended to increase the
jurisdiction of the court, so that it can
hear all cases involving sums up to
$ r,500, instead of $ 1,000 as at present.
The bill also provides that the court
meet at the same places that the su
preme court does, which will not make
it necessary for the superior court
judges to meet in Scranton and Wil
liamsport. This last amendment will I
be very vigorously opposed and may
be abandoned.
It begins to look as though Spain
will not be contented until war is de
clared with this country. Consul
General Lee, who is at Havana has
been given authority to call for any
war ships, whenever he deems it
necessary to save American interests
on the Island.
"'-'E COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURO. PA.
THE BAB ASSOCIATION.
There is much activity in the several
Counties of the State, among the Bar
Associations. The requirements for
admission to the Bar are everywhere
being insisted upon, and preliminary
education, and increased terms of
study are required. A higher standard
of ethics is made the requisite of ad
mission, and personal and social as
well as professional demeanor are be
coming to be among those things
wiiich a lawyer is expected and re
quired to possess.
The honor of the body of the Bar,
as a profession, and 'not as a mere
business, much less as a trade to be
followed, is raising the personnel of
the members, and in dress and de
meanor on the street as well as in the
Court, is expected, and the members
are rising to the occaston. Much of
this is no doubt owing to the exertions
and meetings of'.he State Bar Associa
tions where the members of the Ba.
of different counties come together,
compare notes and also compare
themselves with each other, with their
carriage, demeanor, manners, language
conversation and deportment, and
naturally attempt to follow the very
best examples of dignity and propriety.
Members of the most important of
the learned professions, their duties
to themselves, society, the state, and
to the administration of civil and
criminal law forces them to a very
high position, which they should strive
to adequately fill and to adorn. It is
mainly the lawyers who fill the high
est civil offices, the Presidency, the
Senate, Congress, the foreign ministers,
the Consuls; and it should be their
pride to be prepared for a call to
the highest places.
Every member of the Bar of
Columbia County ought to be a mem
ber of the Bar Association, attend its
meetings, take part in the business,
and give it personal, professional and
social position.
The regular meeting is at 7 P. M.,
on each Monday evening of the second
week of each regular term of Court,
at the Library room, in the Court
House.
Let us have a meeting of the mem
bers of the Bar.
THE PRESIDENT.
COLUMBIA COUNTY PBOHIBITION
CONFENENOE.
Notice is hereby given to the Pro
hibition County Committeemen and
to all Prohibition workers of Colum
bia county to meet in conference at
the office of M. P. Lutz & Son,
Bloomsburg, Pa., on Tuesday, January
25, 1898, at 3 o'clock p. n. to pre
pare for lhe campaign of 1898.
The County Committee will at this
time have before them the fixing of
the time and place for holding next
j County Convention, perfecting the
organization of our party as provided
under the new rules adopted at last
County Convention, and other busi
ness of great importance. Let every
committeeman be on hand.
The committeemen of North and
South Sugarloaf, East and West
Greenwood. Millville Borough, East
and West Scott and the Town of
Bloomsburg comprising the Bloom
Poor District will nominate a candi
date for the office of Director of the
Poor for said District.
The following committees will each
organize and outline their work for
the campaign, viz: Finance, Meeting ,
Organization, Literature, Publication,
Voting Places. Law, Music.
Topics of gteat interest to all will
be discussed. All Pro'niDitionists are
invited to be present.
W. B. CUMMINGS,
County Chairman.
C. B. LUTZ,
Secretary.
Arrangements are being made for
Hon. William J. Bryan to visit
Scranton on or about February 14th.
A committee to make the detail ar
rangements has been named but the
work is in charge of the entire County
Committee. Mr. Bryan will speak at
the Lyceum and a street parade will
mark his entrance to the city.
Poisoned Blood
Disagreeable Itohlng Spread All
Over His Body-Sleep Disturbed-
Hood's Sarsaparilla Drove Out
the Poison and Cured.
"I have been poisoned every Buromor
for years. Laßt summer the poison came
out on me worse than ever before. I
would frequently be awakened during the
night by the Itching. I would scratch
myself, but instead of being relieved the
trouble spread to different parts of my
body. I tried various remedies which
people recommended to me, but none of
them ever helped me. I mado up my
mind the poison could not be cured un
til my blood wag pure and then I decided
to take Hood's Sarsaparilla. While tak
ing the fir3t bottle I felt relieved from tho
itching. I kept on taking the medicine
and it has entirely cured me. X am now
on my fourth bottle and I can sleep
soundly at night." WILLIAM RAN, 3128
Westmont Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Is the Best—ln fact the One True Blood Purlller.
All druggists. $1; six for |S. Get only Hood's.
Hnnrl' Pil1 #ure llTer ,llßi eMT
riOOU S flllS take, easy to operate..
SEE THE
- BIG REDUCTION -
INMEBQEANT TAMLQBINB,
FOR 10 DAYS.
$16.00 SUITS NOW $13.00,
Made to your measure at
TOWNSEND'S, MERCHANT TAILOR.
LITEEABY NOTE
Success in '•Striking" Titles.
The value of a striking title fo an
article or story is understood by no
American periodical so well as The
Ladies' Home Journal, writes a New
York correspondent. It has made its
tit,le famous by their uniqueness. Its
"Side-Talks With Girls." "Heart to
Heart Talks" and "Unknown Wives
of Well-Known Men" have been ridi
culed and paraphrased from one end
of the country to the other. But it has
all been grist for the Philadelphia
periodical. Just now the title of "The
Inner Experiences of a Cabinet Mem
ber's Wife" is attracting attention.
Julia Magruder's new love-story is
given the title of "A Heaven-Kissing
Hill"—taken from Shakespeare, really,
but who but the Journal would have
thought of it ? Marion Crawford's
new story is called "The Dead Smile"
—a title good enough to seil any story.
"The Men I Never Married" is tack
ed to a new series. "The Man Under
Thirty-five" made the reputation of
Lilian Bell in this magizine. "My
Literary Passions," under which Mr.
Howells wrote in the Journal, served
at once to attract attention. Julian
Hawthorne sends a strong story to
the magazine, but with a poor title.
It is immediately rechristened "There
are no Wolves in Ireland." Yet each
title adopted by this clever magazine
fits the story and is really the best
caption for it. "A Minister of the
World" started that story on its succes.
"Mr. Beecher as I Knew Him" was
an inimitable title for Mrs. Beecher's
memoirs of her husband. "The Gentle
man Who is Going to Die" is the
caption for a forthcoming story by
Claxa Morris. Talk about cleverness
in titles, what magazine is such a pa t
master in the art as is The Ladies'
Home Jour nail And a newspaper
man knows how difficult this art of
title-making is. But nothing is so valu
able in attracting the eye of the public.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
Estate of James Johnson, Deceased.
The undersigned Auditor, appointed by the
Orphans' Court of Columbia county, to make
distribution of the funds In the hands of the
administrator, to and among the parties legally
entitled thereto, will sit at the office of Vv. 11.
Snyder, Esq., In Bloomsburg, l'a., on Monday,
January 84,1899, at 10 o'clock a. m., to perform
the duties of his appointment, when and where
all parties having claims against said funds,
must nppear and prove the same, or be deba.i ed
Horn any share thereor.
12-30-4t, G. M. QUICK, Auditor.
SHERIFF'S SALE.
By virtue of writ of alias PI. Fa. and Vend-
Ex., Issued out of the Coui: of Common pleas o (
Columbia county, Pa., and to me directed, there
win bo exposed to public sale at the Court
House lu Bloomsburg, on
SATURDAY, FEB'Y 12, 1898,
at 2 o'clock p. m., all that certain piece, parcel
or lot of grouud, situate In the town of Blooms
burg, Columbia couDty and state of Pennsyl
vania, at the south-east corner of Ninth street
and an extension of Iron street, thence along
said Ninth street notch stxty-tlve degrees and
ntty m'hutes, east three hundred leet to lands
lately laid out and sold by O. A. Jacoby and his
administrators; thence by Bame south twenty
eight degrees arid Ave minutes, east one hun"
d"ed and twenty-eight and one-tenth feet,
tlienco westward'y parallel with Ninth street
three hundred seven and one-fourth feet to
Iron street aforesaid, thence by same north
twenty-four digrees and twenty minutes, west
one hundred and twenty-eight feet to the place
of beginning, whereon are erected a
TWO-STORY BRICK BUILDING
used for manufactr ng purposes, and out
buildings.
Belted, taken into execution at the suit of
F. J. Richard, Trustee, vs. The Bloomsburg
Manufacturing Company, and F. W. Jcnes vs.
Tho Bloomsburg Manufacturing Company, and
to be sold as the pippeily of The Bloomsburg
Manufacturing company.
Waller, W. W. BT • CK, Sheriff.
Herring, Attys. 1-50-ts
SHERIFFS SALE.
By virtue of a writ of AUas Leva' 1 Facias, Is
sued out of the Court of common Pleas of Co
lumbia county, Pa., and to me directed, will be
exposed to public sale at the Court House, In
Bloomsburg, on
SATURDAY, FEB'Y 12, 1898,
at two o'clock p. m., all that certain messuage,
tenement and tract of land, lying and belug In,
on the north-west corner of Catharine street, In
the town of Bloomsburg, bounded and described
as follows, to-wlt: Beginning at a corner of
Eight and Catharine streets, north twenty-five
degrees and nrty-slx minutes, west Beventy
foot to a stone corner of lot of C. W. Miller,
thence along same south sixty-two degrees and
fifteen minutes, west thirty foot to a stone cor
ner of lot of F. G. Yorks, thence along same
south twenty-four degrees and llfty-slx min
utes, east seventy feet to Eighth street, theuce
along said Eighth street north slxty-slx degrees
and thirty minutes, east thirty feet to the place
of beginning.
Seized, taken Into execution at the suit of the
Anglo American Savings and Loan Association
vs. Hattle L. Webb and J. Nelson Webb, and to
be sold as the property of Hattle L. Webb and
J. Nelson Webb.
Little tc Tustln, W. W. BLACK,
Attorneys. BherlfT.
1-kO-ts
The Great Clearing Sale
One week devoted to the rapid movement of accumulated
stock in all departments. Every item must find an anxious
buyer, and every buyer must see the unparalleled money having.
Two Great Features of the Sale s
Saves money for the public. Moves stock for the merchant
Dress Goods.
In measuring our goods for
stock taking, we have taken
full bolts, broken bolts, dress
lengths, and remnants out of
our great line of Dress Goods,
from 25c to $1 25, and put
them in four lots. We did not
consider the cost, but what
price will move them.
Lot No, 1, 23c, worth 25c to 40c.
" "2, 25c, " 35 to 50c.
" "3. 29c, " 4° to 7S C
" "4, 58c, " 80 to $1.25
Ladies' Coats.
Not one of the hundred up
to-date garments escape the
price pruning knife. Profits
go a gleaming, and cost is lost
sight of. There is just this
about it, the stock is going to
be reduced, aud we invite every
woman in the community who
has the most remote idea of
making a coat purchase this
season to be first on the grouud.
Blankets.
If you want a pair of blankets, Jnow
is the time to buy them.
VVe cannot replace them for the
price we offer them next fall, Dut we
don't want the care of them through
the summer.
So thev go at these prices.
. Lot No. 1, @ $2.49, worth $3.50.
" " 2. @ 3-9 8 , " S-oo
" " 3> @ 498, " 6 50.
riuslins.
10 yds. Hill muslin, 47c.
Unbleached muslin, equal to Ap
pleton A., at 4c yd.
Best quality unbleached muslin, 20
yds. for SI.OO.
Lancaster Ginghams, staples, 4jc y.
F, P. PURSEL.
JONES & WALTLER
are still doing
BUSINESS
at the old stand,
50 West Main Street,
Bloomsburg, = = Pa.
Watch this space next week.
WIDOW'S APPRAISEMENTS.
The following Widow's Appraisement a will bo
presented to tno Orphans Court of Columbia
County Feby. 7th. WW and continued nisi, and
unless exceptions are tiled within four days
will be continued finally.
John Neyhard, Personalty SICO.OO.
llenry Bote, Personalty $300.00. _ Ti
Richard Edwards, Personalty $102.0j Realty
$197.40.
Matlilas Heller, Personalty SBOO.OO.
Jacob H. Creasy, Personulty SIOO.OO.
Parson Edwards. Personalty sauo.oo.
Est. of William Pfahler, lata of Cleveland twp.
deceased, Personalty, $300.00.
Est. of Daniel Fritz, late of Sugarloaf twp.
deceased, Personalty SBOO.OO
W. H. HINRIE,
CONTINUED
Hosiery.
50 dozen heavy ribbed hose,
one of the best make in the
market, good for mis r es and
boys. We have never sold
them for less than 15c. This
lot we will sell for lie a pair.
Underwear.
30 dozen men's natural wool
shirts and drawers, GO per cent
wool ; goods we cannot sell for
less tliau 'sc next fall, now go
at our salt for 44c.
Our assortment of ladies' and
children's underwear, union
suits, vestp and drawers, in dif
ferent lots will be found the best
value we have ever offered.
Groceries.
Our grocery department is
full of the best things to eat
that we cau buy, and we sell
them as low if not lower than
any store in town for the qual
ity of goods.
Arbuckle's and Levering's coffee,
IOC a lb.
Chase & Sanborn's coffee, loose, @
talc lb.
Prunes, the kind you buy for 8c else
where, @ 5c lb.
Tinware.
We have a big lot of t-nware
that must be closed at once, so
we throw them in three lois and
let them go. It is next th'-ig to
giving them away but they go
at these prices.
Lot No. 1 @ 3c. Lot No. 2 @ sc.
Lot No. 3 @ ioc.
NOTICE.
Notice Is hereby given that the following: ac
counts have been filed In the Common Pleas ot
Columbia County, and will bo presented 10 the
said court on the nrst Monday ot Februan, A.
I) 1898, and continued nisi, and unless excep
tions art tiled within tour days thercalier. wfil
bo confirmed absolute.
1. The flrst and llnal account of Ellas Krebs,
committee of Lavlna Dewitt.
W. H. HENRIE,
Bloomsburg, Pa., Jan. , 1888. Froth y.
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