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THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED i860.
HE COLUMBIA (DEMOCRAT,
a.tabi isiik.n 1837. consolidated 1s69.
Published Evkky Thursday Morning,
At llloomsliurg, the County Scat of
Columbia County, 1'ennsylvnnia.
GKO. K. EI.WKi.L, Kditoh
1). J. TASKKR, Local Editor.
GEO. C. KOAN, Eoremas.
Terms :Insiile the county $1.00 a year
n advance i $1.50 if not paid in advance.
Outside the county, $1.45 a year, strictly in
advance.
All communications should le addressed
THE COLUMBIAN.
Uloomsljurtf, l a
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1900.
P WARRANTO
PROCEEDINGS.
Co. Comm'r Krickbaum Asked
to Show by What Authority
He Holds Office.
He is Charged With Violation
of Law That Will Remove
Him if Proven.
It has been quite a long time since
anybody about the Court House has
been charged with official crooked
ness, or individual dishonesty. So
long that the public had settled down
again into the belief that once pre
vailed through the county, that there
is such a thing as an honest official.
But now all this peacefulness is ended
for the time being, and there is tur
moil in the air. A petition has been
filed by District Attorney John G.
Harman, asking for a writ of Quo
Warranto, directed to William Krick
baum, to show by what authority he
holds the office of County Commis
sioner. The District Attorney is not
the originator of the proceeding, but
his name is used because, legally, he
is the only person who can ask for the
writ in such a case.
The petition charges Mr. Krick
baum with having made a number of
contracts, officially, with himself per
sonally, and received pay from the
which, it is claimed, is for
by law, and fjr which, if
he could be removed from
As the case has not been
heard yet by the Court, we withhold
the details. Judge Liule has granted
the writ, and fixed December 31st for
a hearing.
county,
bidden
proven,
office.
(JOUST PR00EEDIKG3.
Court convened at nine o'clock a.
m. Saturday.
Commonwealth vs. J. Wellington
Manning. Charge F. and B. Plea
Guilty.
Court sentenced defendant to pay
costs ot prosecution ; a fine of $15.00
to Commonwealth i $15.00 lying-in
expenses ; that you pay to the mother
of the child $15 for the support of the
child up to the present time and also
that you pay the sum of $1.25 per
week.payable quarterly, until the child
arrives at the age ot seven years, if it
shall so long live. Give security to
Bloom Poor District, etc., in '.he sum
of $200.00. Stand committed, etc.
George B. Nicholas appointed
guardian of Mary F. Nicholas, minor
child of G. B. Nicholas. Bond
approved.
C. M. Crevefing, executor, vs. J. G.
Swank, et al. Judgment for want of
appearance against defendants in the
sum of $150.00. Interest lrom Sept.
2 1 st, 1900.
John F. Benlz & Son vs. M. I.
Hennessy. Judgment for want of
appearance.
Estate of Billington Ruckle. Ex
ceptions to account and appointment
of auditor filed.
Farmers' Mutual Ins. Co., of
Middle, Pa., to use of Harry S. Knignt
receiver, vs. Sylvester Heath. Motion
for new trial. Argument.
Same vs. Bartold Kierhofl. Motion
for new trial. Argument.
Court adjourned to meet at 9. a.
m., Monday, Jan. 7th, 1901.
J. Baltzer'i Music Booms.
The way to avoid mistakes is to go to
J. Saltzer's Music Rooms, where mis
takes are not allowed to happen, and
purchase a fine Christmas gift in the
shape of a fine piano, organ, or a
Singer sewing machine.
We are offering on easy terms
pianos $25.00 down, $10.00 per
mpnth. Organs $10.00 down, and
$5 00 per month. Singer sewing
machines $3.00 pr month, for holiday,
presents, at Saltzer's Music Rooms
115 West Main Street.
Best makes of wash machines at
Saltzer's Music Rooms for Christmas
presents.
Everything in the musical merchan
dise line, sewing machine needles and
oil for all makes of sewing machines,
at Saltzer's Music Rooms, 115 West
Main Street.
THE HEW 80UTH.
Observation! of Rev. M. E. McUn.i While
on a Recent Trip lo North Carolina.
In this vast country of ours there
are many changes and transformations,
but possibly none more remarkable
than in the South; especially because
of its former condition.
The new South is apparent even
to the casual observer as he travels !
through that region, and the new f
seems to grow like a green shoot from j
an old and partly decayed stump, .
and with the enlargement of the new
the old dies away. The maiks of the
old to some extent still remain in the
old plantation mansion the Mf ;
Vernon style of building with its
pillated front crowning the summit ;
of some hill and surrounded with its
Negro quarters; it is scn in the
straggling dirty streets of the towns ;
and villages. The signs of the hotels i
with the "Corn and Rye" for sale at ;
the bar, and last, but not least, in the ,
ever present darkey and his mule, j
Many of the ways and customs of that :
past era are still visible. The easy-!
going, careless, shiftless disposition of ,
the colored man and the good natured, j
hospitable, but high strung character !
of the whites. But, the evidences of
the New South are many, and they
crop out very plainly and stand upon
the surface of things. Now you de
tect them in the new style of build
ing ; the neat, trim farm house and
large barn, all nicely painted and en
closed with a pretty white-washed
fence, and the signs of a new and
more thorough cultivation in the
fields, the new and convenient school
h " 1 1 C i-lO tilt 1 II1 r-t--Y t fi fnn.lo tin Inta
implements of husbandry, the dress I
and manner of some of the people, I
the more modern appearance of some
of the streets aud hones in the towns,
and the general tone and tenor of the
inhabitants, because of the ever ex
erted pressure of the present age,
the rush and push of business, and
the charges by means of the marvel
ous inventions and progress of the
times. One might as well try to keep
out the sunlight as to be uninfluenced
by these things. And so the South is
slowly, but surely, changing.
North Carolina impresses one as
being a state of great possibilities,
when you are ready to forget the many
signs ot primitive conditions. One
of the things you notice is the bright
red color ot much of the soil ;, not
like the duller red of our northern
shales, but intensely red, doubtless
due to the abundance of Manganese
ore. But this soil, with careless treat
ment, scarcely any fertilizer, and shal
low ploughing, brings forth its profit
able crops of 'cotton, tobacco and corn,
from year to year and century to cen
tury. The rains of the ages have de
scended upon it in great gullies, but
the contented husbandman ploughs
around them, 'though in some of them
he could bury his little house out of
sight. There is an absence of flocks
and herds grazing over the fields,
which is such a welcome and comfort
ing sight with us. There are no
fences to break the sameness of the
view, or to give your eye relief. Most
of the woods are made up of the
scrub pine, which is so universal there,
'though there are other trees, such as
the oak, ash, poplar, and some hick
ory, but very few of them are really
large size.
One thing that impresses a north
ern beholder is the dreariness of the
landscape. No houses and barns, no
signs of life in the fields, no living
beauty in the surroundings all dead
and dark and silent as if forsaken by
God and man. The low, dark shan
ties, the tumble-down stables, the
washed fields, the monotonous pines,
the snakelike roads winding through
the fields, that a stranger dare not risk
to take, lest they should lead him to it
shanty in an open field, and there sud
denly stop. And yet one is surprised
to meet so many teams upon the road
with cotton, wool and other products;
while occasionally a finer one will
meet and pass you, and you wonder
where all these evidences of life
spring from. You know they do not
come up out of the earth, but you
can see so few respectable places,
from which they might issue forth.
There is, however, no real poverty or
distress in all the region; for it seems
the farmer need only to tickle the soil
with a shallow plow, and it laughs
with a profitable harvest. And with
good prices for corn, cotlon and other
products, there is a good living for
any one who wants it. I he evidences
of "trust" control are there also, for
an effort is making to limit the cotton
crop to a smaller number of bales, in
order that the price may advance.
Gold is not a fancy article in North
and South Carolina; the output is
considerable and no craze over indi
vidual finds. . They seem to work the
mines with paid labor and send the
sepaiated gold to the Charlotte
agency, where it is refined, moulded
into Dars, and sent to the rhilauel
phia mint. We had the pleasure of
seeing a $7500 bar of gold, ready to
ship, which had just been melted and
purified and cooled in a mould. Its
weight was about thirty-five pounds,
Ihis quantity of gold was a two
weeks' product of one mine, and it is
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Think of
Bat Work On.
If your b!ood is impure you cannot even
"think of ease." The blood is Hie
greatest sustainer of the body and when
you make it pure Ly taking Hood's Sa'sa
parilla. you have the perfect health in
which even hard nxrk becomes easy.
w -mi U liW.Tfl.'.'HSll.i ww-n
to ct bk a roi.n in om: day
Take l.mntlve Hromo Vulnflw Tiillotn. All
rinuriflxts rpfunrt t ho money if It. fnUn to rnre.
K. V. Grove's 8JKnntu.ro Is on inch uux. !irc.
said tiiis mine yields about $150,000
per year.
Charlotte is a city of nearly 20,000
inhabitants, and has both beauty and
historic interest, though a great por
tion of it is unattractive, being made
up of straggling streets, with negro
shanties. The remaining part is sol
idly built with fine residences or busi
ness houses, doing a thriving trade,
so far as observation can lead us to
form an opinion. The wholesale, re
tail and manufacturing activity and
prominence of Charlotte, is a matter
of comment in the South, and gives
it a name among the principal places
there. There are a number of his
toric spots and marked events. Iron
slabs denote the pcints where Com
walhs had his headquarters, where
Washington lodged, where Jefferson
Davis heard of Lincoln's death, and
where the Queen's museum was loer
ted, back in the eighteenth century.
A large granite shaft is suitably en
graved to show that a declaration ol
independence from Great Britain was
declared by the patriots ot that coun
try, which antedates that of the Colo
nies at Philadelpnia. It is everywhere
in evidence that the blacks outnumber
the whites, a fact which has given use
to many social and political troubles
there, and which will, doubtless, cause
more, yet it is to be hoped they will
settle all these questions in righteous
ness, and for the highest good of all
concerned. These things must be
outlived, they cannot be set aside or
removed. Over the greater portion
of North Carolina you are looking
upon a part of the Atlantic plain, a
stretch of level country extending for
a thousand miles or more along the
seaboard, with a width of from one
bundled and fifty to two hundred
miles, and in greater part with a fer
tility of soil that speaks of great
things for the future. Let once these
vexing questions be settled, immigra
tion enter there, and these vast re
sources be utilized, and more modern
methods instituted, and then for cli
mate and soil and advantages, we
shall see there a garden spot of the
earth. M. E. McLinn.
Horse Instantly Killed
The Bellig brothers, Frank and
John, of Nutnedia, had a narrow es
cape from death while crossing the
tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
at Catawissa. early Monday morning.
I hey employed every precaution pos
sible to avert an accident, and stopped
a short distance above the crossing to
listen for approaching trains. Not
hearing any sound, they proceeded to
cross. Scarcely had the horses
stepped upon the roadbed of the track
when a freight train crashed into
them. One of the horses was killed
instantly, and the other was badlv in
jured. The wagon, too, was reduced
to splinters. It is almost impossible
to see how the two men escaped, but
they did, and emerged from the wreck
without a scratch upon them. This
crossing, which is on the western ap
proach to the new river bridge, has
always been regarded as dangerous.
It is without a watchman to warn pe
destrians of impending danger, and it
is a great wonder that there are not
more accidents. It is up to the au
thorities to do something to remove
this menace to life.
High Olass Moving Pictures.
The A. & T. Biograph Company
will present its unparalleled exhibition
of Moving Pictures in the Opera
House Friday and Saturday evenings,
Dec. 28 89, for the benefit of the M.
E. Church. In speaking of the enter
tainment recently given in Northum
berland by this company, the Press of
that town, says:
"The entertainment given in Boust's
Opera House, under the auspices of
the Christian Endeavor Society of the
Baptist Church, last Saturday evening
by the A. & T. Biograph Company
of Bloomsburg was excellent in every
respect everything is new and up-to-date,
and the large audience present
was highly pleased with the enter
tainment. The singing by I). J.
Tasker, illustrated by beautifully col
ored views, was one of the most
appreciated features of the evening.
A more gentlemanly set of young men
than compose this company would be
hard to find, and we hope to have
hem in our town soon again."
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STAR
CLOTHING
HOUSE
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XMAS ! XSV1AS !
Wo Arc Piovidy With llio Presents 1
We have the
Latest arid
Newest Styles !
For Father,
Brother, Husband,
Or Friend !
OUR CLOTHING DEPARTMENT
Is now full of the newest and latest styles
for men, boys and children, and at very low
prices.
OUR HAT DEPARTMENT
Is full of the latest in Soft and
Stiff Hats, Driving Caps, Toques and
Tarns. See the Yale, the latest.
SPECIAL
HOLIDAY
STYLES.
Handsome Xmas Goods.
SHIRTS White and colored, for men
and boys.
COLLARS AND CUFFS. Linen cuffs
and collars, rubber, celluloid, &c.
HOSIERY The celebrated "Shaw
Knit." In plain and fancy.
UNDER W EAR. Wright's celebrated
fleece lined, Luzerne wool. In medium
and heaw weights.
HANDKERCHIEFS. Fine, white silk
and linen handkerchiefs. Special for
Xmas.
TELESCOPES.-Bags, &c.
Handsome Xmas Goods.
GLOVES. Dress, driving and walk,
ing, in kid, Mocha, cape and buck.
SMOKING COATS. Bath robes and
pajamas.
NIGHT ROBES. In muslin and flan
nel, domet, &c.
SUSPENDERS. Harris celebrated
holiday styles, in silk, &c.
UMBRELLAS. Self opening and self
closing, silk and Gloria.
DRESS SUIT CASES. In leather,
canvas, Etc.
And many other suitable presents, at
Townsend's Star .Clothing House,
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BLOOMSBURG, PENN'A.
51st Ohristmas at the D. Lowenberi
Clothing Store.
Every useful article that ! Husband,
Son, Father or Brother wears is on
sale here at prices so reasonable that
everyone can make their friends hap-
py-
Kid Gloves oc, 75c , $1.00, $1.50;
fancy hosiery, two pair for 25c, 25c.
a pair, 39c a pair; night robes, 50
and 75c.; white and colored shirts,
S 75c-i $i-oo; beautiful Christmas
neckwear, 25 and 50c ; umbrellas and
canes, 50c. to $3.75; sweaters, for
men and boys, 50c. to $2.00; new,
nobby, soft and stiff hats,$i 00, $1.50
and $2.00; mackintoshes, $2.00 to
$6.50; slippers, for men and boys, 50c
to $1.50; Raglan overcoats, $6.98 to
$20.00.
We keep all kinds. What is more
acceptable than a suit or overcoat ?
Tool chests given away with every
child's suit or overcoat.
To All Holders of Bloombburg Carpet Mill
will be a meeting of the
holders of Carpet Mill bonds, at the
office of Grant Herring, in the Town
of Bloomsburg. on Saturday, Decem
ber 22(1, 1900, at 2 o'clock p. in., for
the purpose of taking proper steps to
protect the interests of the bondhold
ers. All bondholders are urged to be
present. 2t Committee.
CAIBIES
This signature la on every bos ot tbe genuine
Laxative BromoQuinine Tablet.
the remedy that cur a cold In one dajr
Headquarters for a superior
quality. All sorts a mixture
to tempt all tastes.
More candies than most con-
fectionery stores have. Better
and lower priced, too. All
Our Toy Candies
1 are delicious. The only place
where you can buy Lowney s
candies direct from- the factory.
TENNEY'S
Famous Candies.
With every 25c. purchase you
have a draw lor a beautiful
quadruple plate silver cake
basket or butterdish.
E. M. Savidge,
ti IE
Leading Confectioner,
j 4 W. Main St. Bloomsburg.
Red
uction!
corcxsnnrt
IN-
Ladies' and Misses'
Jackets i and
Capes. 1
Ladies' $5.00 and $5.50 Jack-
ft rprlnrpH tn $3. Oft. i S
i Ladies' $7.50, $8.50 and $10.00
sr jactvets. reaucea to m.iiii. m
2$
Ladies' and Hisses' $10.00 and
$12.00 Jackets, reduced to $7.98.
Ladies' Capes Reduced, 1
Children's Jackets Reduced, g
ait
Every customer who makes
i2 niirrhfiQPQ in mil- Hin finnHc He-
f. partment, this week, to the
amount of $1.00, or more, will
j be presented with one of our &
g Aluminum Pin Trays.
F. P. PURSEL.l