STAR OF THE NORTH.
R. W. WEAVER, EDITOR.
Nlooinsharg, Wednesday, July 8, 1837-
Democratic Nomination*.
FOR GOVERNOR,
WILLIAM F. PACKER,
of Lycoming County.
FOB JUDGES OP THE SUPREME COURT,
WILLIAM STRONG,
Of Berks County.
JA MES THOMPSON,
Of Erie County.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
HIMROD STRICKLAND,
of Chester County.
JOHN G. FREEZE, Esq.,
HAS resumed the practice of the Law in
Bloomsburg, Colombia county, Pa.; and
will give hia prompt and careful attention to
all business entrusted to him in this and ad
joining counties.
He can be found constantly in his office, ill
Robinson's Row, near the Court House.
The Fourth la Uloomsburg-
Last Saturday's fins weather was enjoyed
by ou; townspeople iu very lively spirits—
some fourth proof and from that down to
sour beer. The Light Street Columbia Artil
lariats visited our town and paraded in good
style. Their appearance and general con
duct was much to their credit.
Secliler's Danville Band also visited the
town, and gained credit for discoursing ex
cellent music. With them were the Herman
Riflemen of Danville, a new Volunteer Com
pany recently organized there.
The Presbyterian Sunday School Celebra
ted the day in their Church witn a large at
tendance and interesting exercises.
Early in the morning the Fantastic, gath
ered in a motly group and paraded until noon
to the delight of all ''Young America," and
even many children of a larger growth.
In the evening Bad Whiskey and Col.
Phreepbile produced several "knock-downs"
and belligerent demonstrations; so that they
tfdra'veen laying loosely aiopnd on several
bmtU ol htiek and stoee.
More Ranks.
The following late bulletin from the office
ol Dye's Wall Street Broker illustrates the
virtues of bsaking, and the great blessing of
paper money and stock speculations to the
publio.
Tbe Bank of Sooth Royalton, SouthJßoy
allon, Vt., has failed this day at 10 o'clock.
A dispute among the stockholder has
caused a legal investication, Thus the Bank
baa been enjoined. The notes are secured
by deposit of Virginia Slate Stocks and bonds
End mortgages.
Oor advice is not to sacrifice on the bills,
as we think them worth near par.
Also the Seoeca County Bank, Tiffin, Ohio,
has failed.
All tbe securities of this Bank have been
|aken, and used by the defaulting ire,surer;
the bills mty be set down as worthless, un
less the Stale makes up the defalcations of
its treasurer, which amount to 3800,000
We think the people of the great Stale of
Ohio will make up the Deficiency.
Also, the Zimmerman Bank, Elgin, Cana
da, bas closed its doors. The great bribery
sod corruption bas cast a dark shadow over
it. It was conceived in sin, ar.d has died
ol its own poison.
A package of SIOOO has been lost or sto
len of tbe Meiacomet Bank, and ii adver
tised as being fifties u umbered from 414 to
432.
GT The Lewisburg Bank was organized
on Saturday last, when a meeting of the
stockholders assembled at that place
elected the following board of directors viz;
John Walls, Joseph Meixell, W. Frick,
Wm. Cameron, Gideon Biebl, James Mc-
Creight, John D. Bogar, J. G. L. Shindel,
John Datesman, R. M. Frick, John Gundy,
Byers Amnions and A. B. Warford.
On Thursday the 2d inst. at a meeting of
the board, Wm. Cameron, Esq., was elect
ed President and F. W. Pollock, Esq., of
Milton, Cashier.
WOULD NOT STAND — A Hieksite Qoaker re
cently bequeathed *60.000 to the Weatlown
School in Bocks coonty; but as the will was
not made thirty days before the death of the
testator, the bequest was not valid, and the
Supreme Court decided that it goaa to the
heirs at law of the deceJent.
LOSSES BY FIRR. — Within the past year the
Lycoming Insurance Company have paid out
the following sums for losses to persons in
this county: John Ramsey & Co. *640 00,
John J. Stiles *l3 DO, Tboa. Treaoh *3OOO. 00,
Joseph Shir pleas *2500 00, Alfred Mood
*23 75, John Ramsey St Co. *193 00, F.
Nicely *25 00, Jacob Gerard *2 00, B. F.
Colo *l9O 00.
NEW BANES.— The Harrisburg papers eon
tain notice* of applications to be mode to the
next Legislature of Pennsylvania for the
charter of thirty-nine new banks, with an
aggregate capital of about nine millions,
and eight applications for an increase of
capital, making the whole addition to the
banking capital of the State asked for about
ten millions.
ST On Wednesday el last week, a pas
senger (rain going Bonih waa run into by a
coal train jasi above Northumberland. No
great damage waa done, as the passenger
t train was going slow. The coal train was io
.leak.
OT The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
can obtain possession of the Main Line at
any day by exeeuting sad filing the bond*
for lbs purchase money.
Matthew T. Miller, who published the
Philadelphia Bicknell's Reporter about 20
years, announces the suspension of that
paper.
, MAP or BLOOMSBURC —Messrs. Hurley &
Lloyd offer to make a map of our town if
our oitizens will give them reasonable en
couragement. The same gentlemen have
heretofore made a map of Eaaton, and quite
recently one of Danville. We hope to see
our town get its likeness taken.
lAr The Commissioners and Treasurer
will meet at their offices on the 20th inst. to
meet such collectors as wish to pay tax in
time to secure the abatement of five per
cent., and in time to reach the State Treas
ury for the payment of lb* semi-annual
State interest.
Hf The weevil, we are pleased to find,
is not doing as serious execution in the
wheat as was at first anticipated. The grain
was in many casos 100 fully formed to suffer
from the insect.
THE WEATHER OF Jußa.—The mean tem
perature of June, as entertained by tbe ther
mometer at the Pennsylvania Hospital, was
69j degrees, which is two degrees below the
average for tbe last 32 years, and is tbs cool
est June sinre 1846. Tbe mercury indicated
a temperature of 89 degtees on the 26th,
which wag the highest of the month, end of
53 degrees on the 6th, which was the lowest.
Tkm amount ol rain wa 7* imahmm. In Juno,
1855, there fell within a fraction of 8 inches,
viz: 9.94 inches, which is the greatest amount
on record at the Hospital, for June. The av
erage amount of rain for June, for lit* last
20 years, is 3j inches.
. W The New York Time) predicts a fall
in the price of sngur. Just now, there it a
concerted movement among the speculators
to keep it up,—but it will not ava'.l.
"The prospects for a full crop sre highly
encouraging. The high prices which have
ruled the past two years have stimulated
production, whilo they have caused a dimi
nution of consumption, and the natural con
sequences are, increasing stocks and a ten
dency to low prices. Besides, the crop of
Louisiana promises to be nearly four times
greater than it was last year, and the yield ol
Maple Sugar haR been much larger than it
ever was before known."
THE WASHINGTON RIOTS—JUST SENTENCE -
Three ol llie persons engaged in lha late elec
tion riots in W-aabingtou City, bare been tri
ed, convioled, and each sentenced to pay a
fine ol twenty dollars, and to undergo an im
prisonment in the county jail for the terin of
one year. Such punishment as this will
bung election riots into discredit, even with
l'lug-uglies. The courts about the country
should mako such scamps feel that there is a
higher law than mob violence, and one which
oan always protect tbe citizens in their oivil
and political rights.
CANADA WHEAT —Mr. P. Baldy, Jr., re
ceived last week a cargo of 1500 bushels of
excellent Canada wheat,superior to the wheat
generally in thia neighborhood, at a leu price
including freight, than it can be bought for
of our farmers, who seem to hold on to their
crops, not considering ST 80 per bushel high
enough. Should tbe weather prove favorable,
the new crops will soon bring down prices to
a living standard, and some of our farmers
will then learn, to their sorrow, that Hold-foil
is not always the best dog.
MULES INSTEAD OF HORSES. —In Cincinnati,
Ohio, mules pre taking the place of horses in
omnibus lines, express wagons, &c. The
Commercial, of that city, says they are equal
ly tractable, cost less by 20 to 40 per cent.;
they consume 40 per cent, lew food, are 33
per cent more durable, and move with a
steady unyielding celerity, that recommends
them to ail who have tested their merits.
A DILZMMA.— The Cumberland (Md) Coal
Company, having recently purchased 100
Canal boats of the Erie Canal Company,
towed 49 of them around to the mouth of the
Chesapeake end Ohio Canal at Alexandria,
Va.; last week, when they were all found to
be too wide by three inches to pass the lock
gates. The moral of all thia ia, "Never buy
a pig in a bag." '
CROPS IN THE WEST. —The editor of the
Cincinnati Gazst'o has examined a large
number of papers from tbe West, published
within the last few days, and found from
every section most flattering accounts of onr
prospects. Wheat is maturing finely, and
corn is growing rapidly. Tbe corn crop of
the Wabash valley promises to be immeuse.
IRON CARS.— There is now nearly com
pleted in Paterson, N. J., a first class pas
senger car, a little larger than the ordinary
size, constructed almost entirely of wrought
iron. The material is employed tu
great strengih, with less weight than usual,
and to avoid the injury to passengers by the
destrnotion of ordinary cars in any kind of
collision. Iron cars have been nsed on the
Boston city Railways, but have not, we un
derstand, proved satisfactory.
beration of a longer passenger car will be
found almost deafening. It will be as noisy
as "the harp of a thousand strings."
AUBURN AND ALLENTOWN RAILROAD.— The
subscription of $1,000,000, necessary to
put this road under contract, has been sub
scribed, and all the sections, except two at
Auburn, which interfere with the Schuyl
kill Canal, are in the hands of contractors. !
BURNING OF A COAL BREAERR AT SCRANTON.
The Coal Breaker of the Union Iron & Coal
Company, valued at *30,060, was burnt
down on Wednesday. This is the eocond
| Coal Breaker burnt down in that region
within the last two weeks.
OT It is announced that the Portsmouth
and Concord RailtOad will be offered at
auction on the first day of .September next,
at tbe Court House, Portsmouth, by the
Trustees, acting in bebalf of tbe bondhold
ers.
We notice that the Penneglvanian on the
Ist inst. changed its form to its formerly fo
lio size.
Ripe peaches are among the luxuries at
Mobile aud New Orleans.
Death of lion. Wa. L. Merer.
A despatch from Balsion, N. Y., announ
ces the sudden.death, on the 4tb, of the Hon.
William L. Marcy, late Secretary of State in
President Pierce's Csbinet. Mr. Marey had
just returned to New York from tbs labors Of
his exslted post at Washington, which he
had performed ao ably and so creditthjS'D
the chancier of his eocctry. Few men bare
stood higher in public estimation for the
judgment and skill be evinced in the conduct
of publio affairs, especially in onr diplomatic
relations with Great Britain. He was a states
man in the fullest sense of the word, patriotic,
sagacious and comprehensive. His clear in
tellect embraced all the relations and connec
tions of important questions under consider
ation. His power of forcible illustration was
rarely excelled, and there was an honest di
rectness of application which seldom failed
to reach the object be aimed at. It was the
influence of his commanding qualities in the
Cabinet that averted the mischiefs of weaker
or mora arduous counsels. The power he
held he exeroised for the good of his country,
and that is the noblest epitaph to commemo
rate his name.— Ledger.
ur Tbs Phenomena of cold forms the sub
ject of some interesting statements by a wri
for every mile we leave the surface of onr
earth the temperature falls fiva degrees. At
forty-five miles' distance from the globe we
get beyond the almosphoiE, and outer, atiiet
ly speaking, into the regions of spaos, whose
temperature is 225 degrees below zero; and
here cold reigns in ail its power. Soma idea
of mis intense cold may bo formed by stating
thst the greatest cold observed in the Arctic
Circle, is from 40 to 60 degrees below zero ;
and here many surprising effects are produc
ed. In the chemical laboratory, lha greatest
cold that we can produce is about 150 degrees
below zero. At this temperature, carbonic
acid gas becomes a solid substance like snow;
if touched it produces just tbe same effect
on the skin as a red hot cinder; it blisters
the finger like a burn. Quicksilver, or mer
cury, freezes at 40 dagreec below zero—t. e.,
72 degrees below the temperature at which
water freezes. The solid mercury mty then
ba treated ai other materials, hammered into
sheets, or made into spoons, sncb spoons,
however, would melt in water as warm as
ice.— Ledger.
WHAT NKXT? —Passing along the wharf
yesterday, in front of Allen b Needles' place
of bosiness, we observed a barrel filled with
something ibat looked like e mixture, of
wheal bran and smashed cockroaches The
article proved to be a newly newly discov
ered fertilizer, very appropriately called Can
eerine. The utility of this article is a weigh
ty argument on the side of those who main
lain that Nature has produced nothing with
out a wise purpose. It is made from the
king crabs, or "moss bankers,-' which are
found in myriads ou the Jersey beach. They
a-e repulsive in appearance, consisting main
ly ol a shell, legs and tail. The shell is of a
horse shoe shape, and is shoot the siza of a
large dessert piste. At the town of Dennis
ville, N. J. they abound to such a degree that
a firm have erected an extensive factory for
the purpose of eqnverting them into manure.
When the tide leaves the shore ory, the
animals are gathered into heaps. They are
laid upon their backs; when being unable to
turn over, they soot die. They are then put
into a mill and ground to a coarse powder.
The ammonia evolved during the prooess is
extremely pungent, snd in order to fix it, the
preparation is decodorized by animal char
coal. It is then in merchantable order, (and
whenjpacked in barrels, sells readily at thirty
dollars per ton, just half the price of Peruvian
guano. The shell of the king crab ie not of
sn osseous character, bo: possesses tbe pro
perty of horn , and as we have said, contains
a large proportion ot ammonia. We learn
that the demand at present is greater than
tbe supply. We repeat, whatnovelty comes
next?— North American.
SLAVERY ID ENGLAKD. —We copy below a
few advertisements taken from an old English
newspaper, showing some of the peculiari
ties of slavery in England a hundred years
ago, and earlier. Just imagine a lot of negroes
running about with brass collar*, fastened
with a padlock, about their necks like so
many dogs.
"A black boy, of about 15 years of age,
named John White, ran away from Colonel
Kirke the 15lb instant; he has a silver collar
about his neck, upon which is the Colonel's
coat of Arms and Cipher; be has upon his
throat a great scar, bare in habit. Whoso
ever brings the aforesaid boy to Col. Kirke's
house, the Privy Garden, will be well re
warded."— London Gutetle, March 1685.
"Tu l lutit, * ugio hojr. about Id years
old, warranted free from any distemper, and
had those lalal to that color; he has been
used two year* to all kinds of bouseholJ
work, and to wail at table ; bis price is 261.,
and wonM not be sold but the person be be
longs to fsleaving off business. Apply to the
Bar of the George Coffee House in Chancery
Lane, over against the Gate.— London Adver
ser, 1766.
" Matthew Dyer, working Goldsmith, at
the Crown in Duck Lane, Orchard Street,
Westminster, apprentice and euocessor to
Mr. John Redman, corkscrew-maker, deceas
ed; continue* tlie*basinass of bis late master,
in making allVort* of gold and silver cork
screws, tobacco-steppers, silver pad-locka for
blacks or dogs, collars, silver claspknives,
&0., where merchants and shopkeepers may
be supplied on the least notioe, and at the
lowest prices. An assortment of the above
work kept by him."—lbid
(dT The "qua<o" form of Newspapers
seems to be coming into disfavor. Several
leading newspapers have recently adopted
the "folio" form, after a long trial of the
quarto, a* the I alter has proved unsatisfac
tory to snbeeribers and advertisers. As a
mere matter of convenience, the folio style
is certainly ttie most acceptable. A reader
don't want the trouble of cutting the edges
of his newspaper or elf folding it twice when
once will answer.
The Tribune' recommends that its friends
celebrate the 4th of July, with anti-Slavery
Orations, prayers, &c. What next?
laAaeece at MUKM ipt* Tempera sen.
We fled Ihe appended article in our ex
changee. The aaaaiaption that (he manifest
decline i Temperance is due lo ibe incon
siderate seal of its advueatea, la eertainljr cor
rect with the addition thai these persons
plnaged the cansrinto politics. That was an
k nnnatoral place religion, ttd bath
have suffered from the same eauee. At the
time the great wrong was perpetrated we pro
protested agaiast it, and raada every effort to
iadnee its wisgtiiled advocates to desist from
each action, usiagtng tot to rfaeaa that the sad
resell we imkifeytatiwouhl sorely follow.—
Such advice, however, was unheeded—Tem
perance was matte to iu bee pre deroagoguictl
political pnrpoees—end now it lies powerless
and almost lifeless at Ihe feet of Ihe enemy
it eonght lo dedroy. Upon whose heads,
then, rests the- responsibility for Ibis state of
affairs * Upon the beads of those who made
it a political queslon, and tbey are responsi
ble for nearly all fba drnnkenneea of the day.
The general dehaaohtog in yankna land de
scribed in the fallowing may account for
some of he fanaticism:
"The Temperance fanaticism has ran its
course, and the isaolt verifies the prediction
and attests the wiedom of those who opposed
its introduction igjo politics and aaw only in-
Jsry to the ssaie as the retail of ibe Wind
and bigoted seal with which Temperance ad
vooates plunged into the political arena, en
deavoring to (dial opon the people laws at
once Constitution id the
rights of nie.. .ltd great Temperance Ref
ormation which bad elicited so largely and
so justly the attention and the co-operation of
tba benevolent and humane, began from that
hour to decline, until now it baa almost lost
its efficiency, and most begin and do it* work
over again. Mr. Gougb, the eloquent lectur
er, recently bore testimony to the decline of
the temperance cause, but he did not as he
might have done,explain the eeoee of that
decline. It ie aseribable solely to the excess
es of Tern parages advocates, who have
sosght to over-ride the rights of the people by
means of restrictive legislative excitements,
but which, front, its inherent wrong, it has
been found impfeaible to enforce; aod the
moral influence of Ihe reform being lost, the
evil of intemperaeee bee proportionately in
creased. The iocs of Temperance have
dwindled down .from .280,000 to leas than
000, has about gone out of
this once pow3Hßganizationri%e "Tem
perance" papmrhave sunk to mere "whip
persin" of faction. The amount raised for
lectures and temperanoe tracts ia one fifth of
what it was five years ago. The Providence
Potl, speaking of this, and repelling some
false assumptiooeef Neil Dow belore a black
Repitblioan meeting, apys :
" Mr- Gough went farther. He eatd that
mote liquor wXFIoId in Massachusetts than
be had ever before known, and Ibui it was
the same in other States. Here, again, be
spoke the truth end it is folly for Neil Dow
to say that hic4fatementa are 'at variance
with the facta.' JWe can testify fcr Rhode
Island. Mr. tiengb has known ih* State for
about fifteen years. We have known it as
long; and we are sure that more liquor i
now sold in the State than bas been sold at
any former period within that time. We
know that hqfngi tyiil Uewhsn>acki"c went
ioto operation—say 1 six years ago—there were
not one fifth as many grogshops, or one fifth
as many drunkards in the Stale as there are
to-day. There were then seven towns where
liquor was not sold openly or slyly. There
were twelve or fifteen in which it was riot
sold openly; and there were only five in
which licenses were granted. Now it is sold
openly in every one of the thirty-two towns;
end in Providence there are at least thrse
times as many (peg shops as there were then.
In the town of feurrillville six years ago, there
was not a single 'grog shop. We have had
the Maine Lam.Ave yeara, and now there
are twenty-five grog ahope in Bnrrillvill*.
" What is trag of lihode Island is nearly
true of Connaoilbut, neatly true of Vermont,
nearly true of Maioe and New Hampshire,
true to the vertr letter of the whole of Massa
chusetts, and Atas to a great extent of New
York. iirtsein features
of srery State wher-Ae Maine law has been
tried. In every one, the law bss proved a
failure. Mr. Dow knows belter than to say
that Ihe law is eefoiced in Vermont and New
Hampshire. In the former ii does little or DO
good. In Ihe Isttas it is everywhere a dead
letter. He knows better tbsn to say that the
Maine Law carried Maine last felL The Re
publicans cartig the State, it is true; but
Ihey did it by-{poring the Maine Law ques
tion, and taking into their service the only
papers in the Slate—the State qf Maine and
JExpositor —that were recognized organs of
the rumsellerv."
BBS—We have always
been slow te believe the wonderroi cures
which one medicine afier mother pretends
to have made,—but slow as we are we will
own up, when we are fairly convinced.—
with the SMSSWMM! Beaeb and Mr. Far
well, wiH not think us lightly turned, when
we confess our belief that Ayer's Cathartic
Pills here virtues for porilying ihe blood
which eaeel anything within She range of
our acquaintance hitherto. For those who
are net rognixdst of the facta, ws will say;
the has been afflicted for over eight years
with aetoluia which only grew worse in
spite ol all the leessdies she ootid employ,
until shertoofc Acer's Pills. Under their in
fluence one after another of bar sores have
healed, nnlil she is apparently as free from
the romplsml.st onrsslres. He has had liv
er complaini WMTpaia in bis aide that disa
bled birti frsiljtseik /or a long time;all other
medicines b*d failed to afford him any per-
manent relief) bet a lew doses of Ayer's Pills
oared him and he Is tow steadily at his old
post, of cea4 ester oo the cars.— Viddletown
DaUy
A western man, rather a novice in Euro
pean travel, oneL visited Powers' studio at
Florence, and yfar gazing upon its array of
busts suid figuresawhile, inquired the price
of a statue which caught his fancy; upon
being told (3000, he gave a long whittle,
raised his eyebrows, buttoned up his pock
ets, nod strided away, exclaiming "aculp
! tur'a riz 1"
Aa Awful Calamity—3oo Lives Lost I
Tha steamer Montreal, pi j Ing between Ihe
I city of that name, end other ports on tha 81.
[ Lawrence river, was homed-on Friday eve-
I ning last, attended with a fearful lorn of life.
The following deepatob gives soma idee of the
frightful catastrophe.
SiipMTacaL, June 27.—The lope of the ales
onr Montreal has been reported here, and
the excitement ie grhet, ee amy be sop posed.
I The steamer contained no lose than five hun
dred passengers, generally emig rents from
Seoiltnd. The scene ie described as most
frightful opon tba berating oat of ibe flames.
The devouring element spread rapidly, aad,
as a large number of the passengers were
women end children, few precautions of e
eharacter to save life eould be adopted.—
Amidst the awful horror ef the scene, many
persona laaped overboard, a large nomber of
whom were drowned almoat immediately.—
Crowds of others ware roasted to death be
fore tbey could attempt to escape. The boat
was off Cape Rooge at the time of the disas
ter. Persons on shore exerted themselves to
save Ihe unfortunatee, but the rapidity with
which the flames consumed ell in their track
and the intense tenor of those on board the
ill-fated steamer operated against all efforts
to rescue the unhappy passenger*. As far a*
we can leant at Montreal, only one hundred
and seventy-five persona were saved from the
burning wreck, but it is probable that other*
may have reached the shore who have net
reported themselres. It ie certain that over
two hundred passengers were drowned, aod
that very many otbsrs ware burned to death.
The allocking calamity ha* thrown a gloom
over our whole community.
Still later advice* say that the number of
those who are lost will probably exceed thru
hundred and fifty touit I
People must go to Work.
"The Chicago Tribune says that grocers
and produce dealers in that city, are Import
ing pickles from Cincinnati, potatoes from
New York, by thousands of bushels, and
white beans from New Hampshire, in quan
tities to suit purchasers.
This is disgraceful, with millions of acres
of the richest soil the sun shines upon, lay
ing waste and uncultivated, the West im
ports produce from the East. Onr only sur
plus ia wheat. Farmers cultivate this to
the exclusion of other crop*; and the result
is that, as we are credibly informed, bran
and "shorts" for feeding cattle, have actu
ally commanded a higher price in this city,
the present spring, than good wheat. This
is partially the result of too exclusively
growning a single corp, and partly of the
mania for land speculation, which has with
drawn large numbers of men from produc
tive industry in order to acquire sudden af
fluence. Tiie solemn truth is that more
men have to go to work, before the time
will be better. The people of the West will
find themselves obliged to do something
with thejr £yjaea!rte.beeidMjmving. They
must not-only produce ft ißtplus fl! 'wfifnt
but must at least, cultivate a sufficiency of
the necessaries of life, for home consump
tion. It will not do to depend too perma
nently upon the rise of real estate, or a
speculation in City Lots, exhorbitant Rents,
or exurous Joans, for subßislance. Go to
work; use the advantages so beneficently
tendered; plough, plant and reap and you
will be tho most independent people on the
earth.
A GOOD COW. —The Isst number of Ihe
Chester County Times, gives ■ statement ol a
cow which is owned by Jeffries Williams, of
said county, and which yielded a week or
two since the extraordinary amount of twenty
pound) of butter in seven days. We doubt
whether this can be beaten, in or out of the
State. Our colemporary thus nolioes her:
"She is 6 years old; weight 950 pounds;
color, brindle; her feed was six quarts of
mixed feed per day; the average yield of
milk fifty-one and a half pounds per day;
amount of butlsr per week, twenty pounds.
The Media Advertiser notices a cow, the
properto of William Dunwoody, of Delaware
eounty; that yielded seventeen pounds of but
ter in one week. What is die best (bat "Old
Berks" can do 1
PICKINGS AND STEALINGS. —The Cincinnati
Inquirer states that Gibson, the defaulting
I State Treasurer, of Ohio, has recently been to
St. Paul, investing some of the Slate funds in
lands. Tom Ford, the Slack Republican
Lieutenant Governor, had been there ahead
of him, with the profits of his Know-Nothing
campaign In Pennsylvania, with wMch be
intends as a refoge and asylum for the fugi
tive Black Republican officials of Ohio after
the October eieetioos.
OT The people of Dusbore, Sullivan Co.,
tiaru been g really excited doting the past
week or two by the supposition that three
"jail-birds" ware lurking sround or near that
place, one of which is said.to answer vary
nearly-the description of Kbloffe, the notori
ous murderer, who escaped from ltbaoa, N.
Y., some time sinee.
OT Iron Churches, 70 feet long, 40 feel
wide, and 20 feet high, capable of accom
modating 700 persons, and costing about
(5,000 each, have been erected, recently, in
the neighborhood of London. They are
lined with wood, which is covered with can
vass and papered. They can be taken down
and moved to other locations, if desired.
par Gen. Cass is strict in his personal
habits, will not dine out if he can help it,
and goes to bed at 10 o'clock, P. M. • When
at Paris, at balls at his own house, he would
qpietly slip off to bed at the above hour,
leaving his wire ami daughters to en
tertain the company.
The Lehigh and Penna. Ziac Company
have purchased the patent right of Messrs.
Gilbert & Wether ill, for Manufacturing Zinc
paint, for the price of M,OOO.
Mr. and Mrs. Dalton, in Boston, after be
ing forced by meddlesome friends to figure
in divorce case, have eloped with each
other, and disappointed the lawyers.
The whole number of newspapers pub
lished in the United States is 3,(34; some
4J9 of which are in the State of New York.
From the Kanni Herald of Freedom.
The CiMklii PoHcr.
Eastern joareale yntioue to predict Ibal
Kansas will be a a bra Stat#, evidently with
the intMtion of ration 10 tb#
Territory, and making it ■ alar# Sutt#. If
Kansas ia not a alar# Statq Si will not b# tb#
fault of, demagogues throughout the North,
who, w#' honestly Mian, desire it to b#
made aaeh (bat tb#ir predictions may b# ver
ified!
We aay again and again that Kanaaa eaa
never b# mad# a alare Stat#. Nineteen
twentieths of lb# population of that Territory,
at tb# present rat# of iueraaa# from iti# North,
are, or aoon will b#, in favor of freedom, and
will n#rer conaant to be ent laved.
It ia an outrage upon the penpl# of Kanaaa,
tboae who hare borne tha fight in parson in
the pact; to ba thoa miarapreaented in the
East, and throogb political joornala.
Trarel orer the entire length and breath of
Kanaai, and it ia almost impossible to And a
man of either party eo lost to troth as to ex
press a doubt aa to the ultimate reaoll.
Lai our friends in the States instead of de
apondiug, send ns words of ebeer and hope.
A cause waa nerer benefitted by laboring
continually to diecmtragt and dishearten its ad
vocates. Partisans may hope to gain position
by poreotng ttra com— iKsy do, hot their tU
omph will ba ahort-lired.
We ar# disgusted, almost angered, at the
oroaking policy of some of oar exehanges,
and wish they wopld clip oar acquaintance.
A Good Thing wall AppMad.
The acieolifia discoverer end the soisntific
inrentor are diatinot and differant character!.
It ia rarely that be who diaeorere a great
principle appliea it auccesefully and thorough
ly. Sometimes, bowerer, this ia the case.
Prof. Holloway was among the first to broach
the theory that disease was lha result of the
introduction of morbid matter into the circu
lation. Bnt of itself this theory, however troe,
waa use leas. It could not subserve auy ben
eficial purpose to poiot oot the loealily of tha
babe unless the discoverer were provided
with an antidote capable of reaching it.—
Prolessor Holloway cam a up to the good
work doubly armod. Ha had not only traced
the symptoms of diabase to their genniue
cause, but bad, afiar long research and innu
merable experiments, produced two reme
<he which would MMHWy reach It. Time,
which tries all things, has tested the value
of those remedies. What has been $# re
sult t During the twenty years thay have
been before the world, thousands of medi
cines, hundreds of new systems of practice
have been ushered into existence, enjoyed an
ephemeral popularity, and passed into obliv
ion. Not so with Hollowsy's Pills and Oint
ment. Tbey stand first on the list of mod
em curatives. Their repulaiou is foundsd
on a rock—the rock of troth—aud cannot be
shaken. Scarcely a yaar ago thair inventor
came to our shores nnheralded. It is troe 1
I that large quantities of his medieinet/Were
•aoMimed iooho United States, animal his
skill, bis enterprise, btv euumwe, cm (
referred to by the American press, but per
sonally he was unknown to us, and the great
system of aganoiee with which he had cov
ered more than baf the habitable globe bad
uot yet been extended to ibis country. He
came hither for the purpose of affording us
new facilities for Ae procurement of his
preparations, and conseqaenoe has been an
increaee of ona hundred per cent., in the
demand (or them witbin a few months. It
appears, from tbe statement of all who have
taken the Pills for indigestion, that their ef
fect in cases of dyspepsia ia almost beyond
belief. As this complaint has with some
truth been called the national disease of
Ameriea, a specific that never fails to re
move it is of course invaluable.
The public, on both tide* of the Atlantic,
had been to often victimised by medical
charlatan* daring the latt fifty year*, that it
received with something of dietroat the firtt
rumors of tbe efficacy of Hollo way'a rem
edies. Bat every day furnished new proofs
of the fact, and at latt sueh was tbe over
whelming weight of evidence in their favor,
that it became more' absurd to donbt than to
believe. They grew in celebrity, and the
demand for tbem increased with a rapidity
unexampled in the annate of medical sci
ence; nor hat their fame or that ef their in
ventor yet attained its culminating point.—
It never will reaob that point, for culmination
pre-tnppoees cessation of progress, and so
long at humanity it subject to pain, fever,
debility, injuries and deatb, Hollowty's Pills
an i Ointment must continue to maintain
their proud pre-eminence.— N. Y. Nat. Pol.
GateUt.
A NOVEL TEST or STBEUOTM.—The Penne
burg Democrat says that Mr. George Re iter,
of Upper Hanover township, Berks county,
recently Kfted a keg of nails weighing 100
pounds, from the floor to the counter with
his teeth, in a store at Pennsburg. He has
been, heaton, however, by MrJacob K reuse,
of lower Milford, Lehigh county, who re
cently lifted, in Hillegaa' store, Pennsburg,
a keg weighing 195 pounds from the floor
to the counter, with his teeth.
The Bridgeport papers, announcing the
departure of Mrs. P. T. Barnum and fam
ily for Europe, state that Mr. Barnum in
tends to make his future home on the other
side of. the Atlantio.
EW A Republican paper oalls Gen. Packer
a "political trimmer." He will "trim" Davy
Wilmot to his heart's content about thu se
cond Tueedey of Ootober neat.
SUICIDS.—A fow days ago, John DetweHsr,
Sr., a respectable elderly farmer of Moal
gomery county, Pa., went to hia wagon
boom and hung himself.
Roascar.—On Saturday night last, the
tavern of Alfred H. Barber, of Doyleatewn
da, war entered agd robbed of $145. The
theif got off.
A proposition to abolish flyjjoe ue- fjmgj
ing discussed in Minnesota j, ig jttm
to have but one Legjslatnpa ifody. /
(n Greenwood, Juno 19th, ELIZABETH,
daughter of Jamea V. and Lydia Ferguson,
1 aged II yean, 6 month* and 20 day*.
/
Special Notice*.
HoUoway's Pills.— Armed with this great
antidote, the traveller is prepared to encoun
ter eN varieties of climate, for be baa ih
means of eradicating nearly svsrv species of
internal disease. Tbe endemics of the alia
vial district# of the weet, and the miasoMti#
swamps of the sooth, and the epdemiee
which at peculiar seasons decimate the pop
ulation of oor crowded cities, are eeseepiitfe
of being controlled by the purifying, disin
fecting action of the pitta Upoa the animal
fioids; while external diseases and injnriee
are rapidly and thoroughly sored by tha ami.
inflammatory and healing agaaey of tha Oiol
msfct.
*• Weonin Cttaaw"'— sf Pomade fot
beautifying Ike Hair— highly perfumed,
superior to any French article imported, and
for half the price. For dressing Ladies Halt
it has no equal, giving it a bright glassy ap
pearance. It cauees Genllsmen'e Heir to
curl in the most natural manner. It removee
dandruff, alwaya giving the hair the appears
anoe of being fresh shampooed. Price otrty
fifty centa. None gennine unless signed
FETRIDGE St CO.,
Proprietors of tha
" Balm of a thousand Flowers."
For eale by all Drnggiste. New York.
I AEDITOK'S NOTICE.
NOTICE ie hereby given that the under,
signed Auditor to whom was referred the ac
count of J. Sanderson Woods administrator
or the estate or John Lazarus lite of Fishing
creek township, Colombia eonnty, deceased,
and tbe exceptions thereto, will proceed lo
hear all partiee interested in tha said estate
at bis office in Bloomsbgrg on Baterday tb#
25tb day of Jely inst. at 10 o'eloek A. M.
BOBT. F. CLARK,
jfiujjioft,.
. Bloomsbnrg, July 6,1897.
NOTICE TO THE IEIBSTDEVISERS
Of John Men, late of Mtsdietm township,
Columbia County, deceased.
Yon and each of you era hereby notified
that at the last term of lbs Orphan's Court of
Columbia county the pepitioe of David Al>
ien on# of tha SODS aod devisesa of tha paid
John Allen deoeaaed was presented fa tb#.
said coon praying for the eels of the Mow
ing real estate of tbe said decedent to Wit:
A lot of ground in Jerseytown in Madison
township, situate on tbe Main road or street,
of said town adjoining lot of John Swisher,
lot me lose belonging to Dr. ROSSSt rartw w<i
others, eentaiaing ana acre of land on which
is ereotad a two story frame dwelling bones
end frame stable:
Also one other lot of lead in said town sit
uate on said Maia road or street, adjoining
land of John Swisher and Jamas Stoat, bei eg
~a pwn let. .
Also two other contiguous town lots stro
mi# in said town on said Main Street aed ad
joining lot of John Foneioii ami others ;
. And one oatlot of taod sitoate on Ibo road
leading from Jerseytown to Millville contain
ing aboot three anil one half aoros adjoinio#
land of Jobn Swisher, Abraham Brodl and
others: —which said properly was on tbe
21st day ol November, A. D., 1848, accept
ed by Robert Templeton Allen and awarded
to him at tbe valuation and appraisement of
an inquisition held thereon, and the Orphan's
Court of Columbia county on the 21st of
AugoiJjA, D , 1847, vacated the decree so
I awarding the said real estate; so that the
' same remains unaccepted by any of devisees
and unsold. And it ie prayed in the said
petition that the seid real estate msy be or
dered by the Court to be sold at pablic sale
on the premises on a day certain on the fal
lowing terms and conditions: twenty per cent,
at the striking down of the properly, one
half of tha remainder on the first day of
April, 1888, end the other half thereof on the
fiwt day of April, I 8&9, with interest from
tb# first day nf Apfil next;—and s rots ha#
been granted by the said Court upon lite
heirs and devisees of John Allen deceased
lo show esase, if any they have, by the first
day of next term why the order of eats
should not be granted, of whioh you will
hereby Mke notice.
STEPHEN H. MILLER,
Stnaivr's Orvica, j Sheriff.
Bloomsburg, July 8, 1857. f
MAP ©F BLOOMSBIJRf,.
MESSRS. HURLEY & LLOYD, civti Km
gineers. Surveyors and Map Publishers,
ere new in this place for the purpose ef ma
king a thoroughly correct Property Map,
showing the Ground Plan ol every Buildiugi
the sjxe and shape of each Lot, with owners'
names, or initials, printed thereon, Colored,
Varnished ami mounted on Caeeae, ami Rol
lers, all complete. Price per eopy, 85 pay.
able on delivery of tbe Map.
They are else prepared to make Survey#
and famish Skeleton MUDS of Farms, with
oonlents calculated and inserted thereon,.f
auy farm within a reasonable dietane# from
town. - i
School Teacher Wanted.
A competent teacher ie wanted to tsk#
charge of a common school in Conyngham
district. Employment could ba given for 8
months in the year, and to a OOOD lemale
teacher 820 per months would be paid. TV
secure the situation early application snoalrt
be made to F. R. WOHLFARTH,
President of the Board qf Directors.
Ceo tie villa, July 1, 1857.
MTKB TT TIE PVMIC.
THAT Mr. J. O. Richardson is no longer
Agent for ns. Nor will we pay any fnrthss
debts of bis oonlracting.
GRAHAM fc BRO,
Beaver Valley, Colombia Co, Pa. I
June 16, 1867.—41.
COOPERING. /
THE subscriber announces that b# WHI
carry on tbe COOPERING BUSINESS at hi#
brewery in Hopkinevilie, where be willmak#
end everything in that line of bnetneas. He
will also repair work of all kinds, aad win do
it skillfully and at fair prices. .
CHARLES W. HASSERT,
Bloomsburg, Juue 2, 1867.
TOLLS AT BEACH HAVEN.
Cou.CCTOR'k Ovmcu, 1
Beach Haven, June 81 A, '57. f
Ma. EDITOR 'The amount of tolls rucety- .
ed at this ofiioe are a* follows:
March 8 91 0#
April, . 10585 79
May, ........ 20958 30
Total, . . . 881630 18
JOHN S. FOLI.MER, Collector.
BLANKS! BLANKS!! BLANKS!T
DEEDS, SUMMONS,
EXECUTIONS, SUBPfKNAS,
AND JUDGMENT NOTES,
of porper A desirable forms, fo- tale at the
office of the "Star of the North."
KRON STEEL, and every kind of Haul
wiit or ulr bo
McKWT,WBAr.4rCo*"
BITORTICED POSTS on band and lor sal#
at lha Areada by
May 27, '67. A. C. MENSCH.
and Wool Carpet fry eale cheap
w-J at the Arcade by
May 27.'67. A. C. MENSCH.
COLOUR AND FEED Depot at the Arcade,
T by A C. MENSCH.