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'.I. W. M. Low, President. J. M. Stnwr, Viet; Presiilent.
',. It. 'I nstill, Vice President. K. F. Carpenter, Cashier,
I) I RECTO HS:
K. VV. M. Lnw, F. O.Yorks, Frank Ikeler, Joseph Hattt,
i',. B. Tustin, Fred 1 keler, Geo. H. Bobbins, 8. ('. Creasy,
J. M Shiver, M. I. Low,
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED tSr.6.
THE COLUMBIA BEBflOCRM,
EsTAiiLisiiK.n 1837. Consolidated iSdo
PUHl.UHKI) EVKRV TlH-RSDAY MoKMSf.,
At Hloomsluirg. the County Scat of
Columbia County, Pennsylvania.
GEO. E. EEWKEL, Editor.
GEO. C. ROAN, Forum an.
Terms: Inside the county $i.co a year
In ail.ance; $ 1.50 i f not paid in advance.
Outside the county, 1.25 a year, strictly in
dvance.
All communications should be addressed
THE COLUMBIAN, liloomslmrj;, Ta.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, iaS.
DEMOCRATIC) DELEGATES-
Representation in Stnte Conventions ftr
tbe Next Year Will be Based
On the Democratic Volo Polled for Berry
Columbia County Will Get Four Dole,
dales to Next Convention.
Under the rules of U12 Democrat
ic party, relating to representation
at state conventions, each legisla
tive district in the state is entitled
o at least ore delegate. In count
'5 where the partv vote is more
inn 1,000 one delegate for each
lousand votes and one for a fract
u of a thousand over 500 are al
nved. Under the head of Demo
.ratic party, according to the official
returns received at that department,
William II. Berry Rot 350,696 vot
es. An examination of the state
tables of figures shows that the next
Democratic convention will consist,
therefore of 352 delegates. Under
this apportionment Columbia coun
ty will get four delegates.
Getting Heady tor Berry
Sinking Fund Commissioners Are Hastening
to Carry Out tho Law's Intent
The Philadelphia Record says:
The Board of Sinking Fund Com
missioners, through State Treasur
er Mathues has notified all banks
holding tbe $4,000,000 surplus in
the fund to be ready at any time to
meet a demand for this money.
Such is one of the salutary effects
of the revolution. Does any one
imagine that this notice would
have been issued had the election
resulted in the choice of the
Machine candidate for state treas
urer? Had these faithless public
servants obeyed the plain intent of
the law there would now be little
or none of this money in the Sink
ing Fund. When no state bonds
are offered at current rates, the law
declares that the commissioners
'Shall invest the money of the Sink
ing fund in United States securities.
For their flagrant violation ot the
law these delinquent officials should
have been impeached, and they
would have been impeached but for
the protection and encouragement
afforded them by a Machine legis
lature of the same kidney. Now,
when the penitent and humil
iated legislature is going to assem
ble in special session to make pub
lie confession of its violations of
most solemn duty, the Sinking
Fund commissioners with like ab
jectness hasten to obey the neglect
ed laws in anticipation of the com
ing change of financial administra
tion. The exhibition would be
most gratifying if it were as sincere
and honest as it is humiliating to
all concerned.
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Among those who are rennrtprl
to hi applicants for the position of !
clerk in the county commissioners' I
office are J. W. Ilidlay, the present
incumbent; Deputy Sheriff Bruce
Black; and Geo. K. Clemens ot Ber-!
wick. Wesley Knorr is named as
an applicant for the position of as-,
sistant clerk, now filled by Thorn
ton Freeze who is an applicant for
reappointment.
IN THE COUNTY
urpluiand Undivided Profits
$150,000.
Louis Gross,
II. V. 1 lower.
U0NGRES3 IN SESSION
Congress convened 011 Monday
morning lor its regular winter ses
sion. It is confronted by many
matters ot great importance upon
which legislation is needed, prom
inent t'lnong which are:
To grant power to an executi"e
body of the Government to fix
ransportation rates.
To include in interstate commerce
and transportation, private cars,
terminal tracks and switches.
To regulate insurance companies
that do business in more than one
slate
To regulate and control corpora
tions doing an interstate commerce
business.
To make further provision for
the construction of the Panama
Canal and possibly decide upon the
type of canal.
To consider a new commercial
treaty with Germany and possibly
pass a retalitory maximum and
minimum tariff law.
To modify the Philippine tariff
law by reducing the rates to 50, or
perhaps 25 per cent, of the Dingley
rates.
To ratify a treaty or pass legis
lation that w.ll give the Uniud
States control of the finances of
Santo Domingo.
To consider further restrictive
immigration regulations and the
modification of the Chinese exclu
sion act.
To pass a law that will punish
bribery and prohibit the corrupt
use of money in national elections.
To provide for the further devel
opment of the navy by authorizing
at least one 1 8,000-ton battleship.
To aid the American merchant'
marine by providing for subsidies to
American-built vessels engaged in
the trade to the Orient and to South
America.
To prevent the destruction of
America's great natural wonders,
like Niagara Falls and the big trees
in California.
To provide statehood for the
territories, making one state of
Oklahoma and Indian Territory
and one of Arizona aud New Mex
ico. To pass a bill preventing the
adulteration ol food products.
Tho Oystermea
Recent developments show that
a state of things have existed for
some time past on the Chesapeake
Bay that are a disgrace to our civ
iliization. Oyster boats are manned
by men " ho are first drugged and
then taken aboard without their
knowledge or consent, and com
pelled to work at dredging oysters
until they are worn out, and then
turned loose with little or no pay.
Kicks and blows and even murder
are charged against the masters of
some of these boats. The Gover
nor of Maryland and the Federal
authorities are now taking a hand
and several arrests have been made,
and it is likely that this sort of
human slavery may now cease.
Ayer's
One dose of Ayer's Cherry
Pectoral at bedtime prevents
night coughs of children.
No croup. No bronchitis. A
Cherry
Pectoral
doctor's medicine for all
affections of the throat, bron
chial tubes, and lungs. Sold
for over 60 years.
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family fur uiirlil yean. Tlitru m iKithinu eqiiitl
to It forrntiuhi and cold. espm-lnlly for vii-ureu."-MuH.
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All ilrm'irlm.
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T.OWf'll, M:i4s
for
Night Cough
Koop the bswols open with one of
HOME OF FRENCH IXILE8-
Nobles Who Fled to This Slats During tho
French Revolution,
The French revolution of 1791-3,
which overturned the existing or
der of things in France, was speci
ally directed against the clergy ami
nobility. Not only the King. Louis
XVI, but also a large number of
the highest nobility, fell victims to
the writh of furious mobs, while
many others were doomed to exile.
A number of the exiles decided to
found a colony in Pennsylvania.
Among the lea'ding spirits of tho
movement were the Viscount Louis
Mari do Noailles, the brother-in-law
of Lafayette, and the Marquis Tal
on, a Parisian banker, and formerly
one of the financial directors of the
Government. The .scheme for tho
colony was perfected in 1793 by the
appointment of M. Charles Bnlogne
of France, and his associate, Adam
Hoopes, f Philadelphia, as the
agents of the colony. These men
secured a Urge body of land on the
north branch of the Susquehanna
in (now) Bradford County, and
proceeded at once to erect houses
and other necessary buildings for
the colonists. The settlement thus
formed was named, quite appro
priately, "Asylum," and was l icit
ed near the present town of Wya
lusing. Some 50 or more houses
were built, besides several saw
mills and a gristmill. A weekly
post was established with Philadel
phia, bringing the colonists in close
touch with civilization.
Besides the distinguished men al
ready named were the following of
patrician rank: Beaulieu. de Bal
cons, Dandelot, de Montule, Dupet
it Thouars, La Port, Le Fevre and
others.
MANY DISTINGUISHED MEN.
The colony becamo the objective
point of many exiles who did not
contemplate a permanent stay.
Among this number were some of
great distinction. Louis Phillip,
who in after years ascended the
throne of France, was one of these
During his stay of several weeks at
Asylum he was the guest of M
Talon. The Count de la Rochefou
cauld, noted as a traveler and auth
or, and also Prince Tallyrand, one
of the greatest characters of French
history, were also here at this time.
Obviously, the French colonists,
most of whom were born and reared
in affluence and luxury, were ill
adapted for the work they had un
dertaken. To subdue a wilderness
aud to erect homes in virgin lands
was sufficiently difficult for the
German and Scotch, Irish and oth
er stuidy yeomanry of Pennsylvan
ia, but when undertaken by gentry
whose hands were not injured 'o
toil the project was doomed to fail
ure. After struggling for several years
with adverse circumstances, the
colonists were joyfully surprised by
a sudden and fa v. rable turn of af
fairs in France. Following in quick
succession the power of the Jacob
ins was broken; tho tyrant Robe
spierre met the fate which he had
mercilessly meted out to hundreds
of others; the exilian edict was re
voked, and all exiles invited to te
turn by the new regime.
The Asylum colonists were not
slow to avail themselves of these
unfavorable circumstances, for a
Frenchman, above all others, is at
tached to his native land. One by
one the emigres disposed of their
holdings and effects and departed
for France. In a few years the lit
tle town was almost deserted, and
in less than eight years from its
foundiue the French colonv nf
iled noblemen had ceased to exist.
FATE OP SOMF, OF THE COLONISTS.
The subsequent historv of snmo
of the exiles is thrilling, and in
some lustaucesof mournful interest.
Monsieur Boulotrne. the efficient
agent of the colonists, was accident
ally drowned in the Loyalsock
Creek, where Forksville, Sullivau
County, is now situated. This sad
event occurred on July 26, 1795, as
he was returning from Williams
port, whither he had gone on busi
ness.
The Viscount de Ncailles was
commissioned a brigadier general
upon nis return, ana sent on au ex
pedition to Santo Dominco. Up
was mortally wounded while lead
ing in the capture of a British ves
sel near Havana. Admiral Dupet
it Thouars had made an improve
ment on me present site ol Diuhore
in (now) Sullivan County. The
town was named in his hnnnr rn.
shore being the Anglicised form of
me Antnirai s name. The old hero,
who had lost an arm in hattl JmH
a hard struggle for existence in his
mountain nome, and gladly re
sponded to the invitation to return.
France becoming involved in war
with Kngland, he, like de Noailles,
aud other colonists,' entered the
military service ci his country. He
was given command of the Le T011
iiaut, one of the most formidable
OASTOIIIA.
Bean the
lh Kind You Have Always Bought
itiMna Y
men-of-war in the P'rench navy.
On August 1, 1798, occurred the
battle of the Nile, where France
sustained the greatest naval defeat
in her historv. She not only suf
fered the loss of her best fleet, but
aiso her best naval officers, among
them Dupetit Tliou.Kes. The for
tunes o! others of the colony are of
equal ihiei -st.
Among those who remained was
M. La Port, whoso son, the Hon.
John Port, was one of the most
li' -tiuuuished men of this Common
wealth. He was Surveyor General
of tl e State, a number of the Leg
islature for many years and Speak
er of the House, and also a member
of Congress. The thriving town
of Lapoit, in Sullivau County, was
named in his honor.
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V.ilae of tba Reform Movement.
We are not inclined to under
estimate either the force or the im
portance of the reform movement
in Philadelphia. The defeat ol the
machine candidates for Sheriff,
Coioner and City Commissioners in
that city is not only highly signifi
cant but immensely valuable to the
cause of political reform. It would j
hardly be 111st to say- that the elec
tion of Mayor Berry to the office of
State Treasurer and the prospective
improvement in the fiscal affairs of
the Commonwealth are ascribable
to that movement, though it was a
potential contributing agent. As a
matter of 'act, however, notwith
standing the vast fraudulent vote
in Allegheny county, the State out
side of Philadelphia gave Mr.
Berry a considerable and very sub
stantial majority.
But the real value of the reform
movement in Philadelphia is yet to
be determined. So far as it has
goue it is genuine and effective.
The rout of the machine was com
plete and overwhelming for tho
time and the loss of the offices
enumerated together with the re
form in the executive department
of the municipal government is a
severe blow to the " organization."
The serpent hi.s only been scotch
ed, however, not killed. The kill
ing must be doue at the February
election and if there is any abate
ment of zeal or impairment of
energy on the part of the reform
forces between now and then, there
may be no killing at all. In other
woids the monster 'may recover
from the wounds inflicted aud strike
a fatal blow himself in February.
And what is true of the city of
Philadelphia is true of all sections
of the State. During the recent
campaign we labored assiduously to
show that the defeat of the local
candidates in Philadelphia was of
vastly less importance then the
overthrow of the State machine.
The effect of the election of Mayor
Berry on the public mind vindicates
that opinion. If Plummer had been
successful the result on the Phila
delphia local ticket would have been
laughed at by the machine mana
gers. On the other hand his defeat
was a solar plexus bump. But it
must be supplemented by future
victories of the people and the time
and place to 'ay the foundations
for luture victories are in February
and at the local elections. Belle-
fonte Watchman.
Eeal Estato Transfers
Recorder Rutter has recently re
corded the following real estate
transfers:
Lehigh Valley Coal Company to
Ada R. Trexler for property locat
ed in Aristes.
Samuel C. Hartmau and wife to
John O. Applemau for property in
Benton.
Daniel S. Laubach's heirs to M
F. Stackhouse for house and lot on
Fast Third street, Bloomsburg.
W. B. and Lizzie R. Allen to
FYank W, Miller, for house and lot
on Iron street, Bloomsburg.
II. W. Hess and wife to C. II.
Campbell, et. al., for property in
Bloomsburg.
B. F. Sharpless to C. H. Sharp
less for property in Bloomsburg.
Henry Wanich's executors to
Charles Chamberlain, for property
in Berwick.
L. C. Mench and wife to Eliza
Lillie. for property in Catawissa.
Deborah J. McKelvy to Charles
II. Bates for property located in
Catawissa.
Berwick Land and Improvement
Co., to Martin Gulosky for proper
ty in West Berwick.
Lane Hedden's heirs to Lillie
Keeler for property in Benton
township.
JAYNE'S
EXPECTORANT
Thanksgiving Time
fleans Overcoat Time.
Tho colder weather is here or going to be anv
day. I f von have'nt sorted your Full or Winter
(hereout yet it's high time you should else you'll
bo caught so.no nipping night.
I We want you to lo.ik
Paddocks, Chesterfields and, Long
BeitCoals. Afull line of Rain
Coats from $10 to $30.
WNS
Knox Hats.
1
JUST A FEW HINTS
AS TO GIFTS
Furs rank high among the liner sort of gifts.
These tine linens make acceptable gifts.
Handkerchiefs, thousands of them, and they hoy
miss fire.
China, a great display from the common white iron
stone up to the famous llavilaml. You can
buy as you want or in sets.
Furniture, it helps make the home, and the home
makes the Christinas.
, Globc-Wernicke "Elastic Book Cases." We are
sole agents for these.
Kitchen ware, enameled and the celebrated Ko
! Chester nickle ware,
Coats and Tailored Suits. The very largest as- !
sortment.
I Blankets or Comforts, just the kind you want. 1
o ip . . i ... - r .
p. ii we say "all wool" when selling a blanket
it is all wool.
Bric-a-Brac and odd Decorated China.
Shoes, Gloves or good "Warm underwear always a
fine assortment.
Dress Goods, the largest stock to choose from in
i the county.
F. P.
BLOOMSBURG,
the standard cough and cold cure for over
75 years now comes also in a
Convenient to
be without it.
iyo6 ALMANAC
at these Overcoats of ours.
Adler's Gloves.
er
PURSEL.
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carry with you. Don't
Ask your druggist. 2)1V
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Ayer's puis at bedtl
Ime, Just one