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The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-07-03
GAMBLING.

Green the reformed gambler in a late
communication in the New York Tribune
gives the following "reminiscences OF this
vice in Pennsylvania -
"Harrisburg, especially during the session
of the Legislature, had long been a favorite
place of resort for gamblers. They were
seldom, if ever, molested, and during the
Winter season were sure of doing a good
business.
Bedford Springs, in Pennsylvania, a fash
iona5le place of resort during the Summer
season, was also celebrated for the gambling
habits of %visiters, who were SO numerous
that the players required special accommo-
dation, aud therefore a gambling house was
erected for Simpson, a Baltimore gambler,
who paid a Thousand dollars a season for the
use of it, and thus occupied it for some ten
years.
Bedford, a village near the Springs, was
also a resort for gamblers. In the year 1899
Capt. Howard "a Southern desperately who
was lately killed in the streets of st. Louis, and
an individual we'll known TO the writer open
ed q faro bank there, and won over seuen
thousand dollars in a few weeks, an officer
of the county losing against them between
two and three thousand dollars.
The action OF other States, in reference TO
gambling, had a tendency TO increase The
vice in Pennsylvania, and paved the way
for the passage of a more stringent law, as
a matter of self-defense, and, in 1917, upon
my own direct application, a new law was
passed, by which the keepers of gambling
apartments are liable 10 a fine of from $50
to $500; and persons engaged in gambling
as a means of living, or found with gamb-
ling implements, may be imprisoned in the
peniten,iary from one TO five years, and re-
quired 10 pay a fine of $500. Amy one in
viting or persuading another to visit a place
used for gambling purposes, shall, upon con-
%viction, be held responsible for the money
or property lost by such persuaiion OF invita-
ton, and fined from $50 to $500. 1t is made
the duty of all sheriffs, constables and all
prosecuting attorneys, to inform upon and
prosecute offenders agains! the act, under
the penalty of $50 to $500, All suspected
places may be broken up with impunity,
and the gambling apparatus carried off, de-
tanned and destroyed. This law went into
coeration The LIST Of July, 1917, and on the
9th of the same mohh The first arrest under
i, took place. This was the case OF Aaron
Wlllet, a colored man, who kepta gambling
house in Maryland.st. Philadelphia. He was
arrested by Aid. Snyder, who entered his
house and found the implements of his pro-
%fsssion, on the premises, and carried them
off, and the gambler was comitted TO prison
Kerrison, the keeper OF a billiard saloon
in Philadelphia, where gambling was allow
ed, was alse arrested, convicted, aud sent 10
the Peniteutiary, but subsequently pardoned,
Two thimble Triggers, named jacob Arnold
and Jonathan Hornberger, were found guilty
at Reading, Pa, Of swindling a boatman, by
their thimble- playing, and were sentenced
10 pay a fine of $50 and costs, and 10 i'm
prisopment in the Peniten,iary in solitary
confinement for two years eaehn
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-07-03
JUDGE JESSUi,.

We have been several times asked what
connection this gentleman, now a candidate
for Supreme Judge, had with the exploded
Susquehanna county Bank, and it is perhaps
better that the truth should be known, than
that conjecture and suspicion should make
his case worse than 1t is. Before the books
of the Bank were opeped for subscribing
stock, Judge Jessup says, persons liz Mon
trose determined that all the stock should be
taken in that neighborhood and formed a
company 10 take all surplus stock that resi-
den, individuals did no. want, and thus pre-
vent foreign influence from controlling the
operations of the bank. Of that company
Judge Jessup was a member. The stock of
the Company stood in the name of James
c. BIddle & Co, until the death of Mr.. Bid
die IN 1912 when the company assumed the
name of VIM. Jessup s. Co. Subsequently
this stock was transferred TO The bank by
Mr.. Jessup, and the stock notes of the Com
pany were cancelled. So much of the orig
inal capital only as was deemed necessary
10 do business by the directors was actually
paid in, and the residue of the stock was
represented by the notes Of the Company.
Such is Judge Jessups testimony. He says
he had $500 worth oil stock originally in the
bank, which he subsequently transferred
Al first he was a director of the Bank, bit
ceased TO be such before it went into opera
ton.
Tie following is an extract from the min
utes of the commissioners TO sell the stock
of the bank.
"Sept. /, 1887. Commissioners met at
courthouse in MoItrose.
On motion of VIM. Jessup Esq.
ResolUed, That in payment of subscription
TO the stock of the ~Susquehanna county bank,
the subscribers thereto be permitted to pay
in current bank notes or specie the i've dol
lars 10 be paid on each share, and The pre-
MUM, if any should be paid"
1t appears clear by the evidence that the
surplus stock held ty the company was
never paid in to the bank and that no GER
tifcates were ever issued for it. Yet the act
of incorporation provided in the seventh
section as follows -
"No discounts shall be made, nor any
notes issued by said bank, until the whole
of the capital stock thereof DE paid in nor
shall the said bank purchase any, nor shall
any loan be made upon the pledge of its
own stock"
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outrage-.Narrow Escape.

As Constable Johnson, of Wilkesbarre,
was conveying a negro barber, named Ma
sou, to jail, on Wednesday last, the negro
drew a razor which he carried concealed in
a handkerchief in his hand, and made a
dash at Johnson's thfoat, which took effect
in his face, cutting a deep wound from the
cheek bone to the corner of his mouth
The negro then in attempting 10 escape was
seized, unsuspectlngly by MAJOR F. II Bow
man, when a similar attempt was made up
on his life, but which, however did not take
effect, He IS now safely lodged in irons.
The affair produced quite an excitement in
the borough.-PiHslon Gdsette.
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INDIVIDUAL LIABlLlTY CLAUsE-We learn
from The York (Pa.) Gazette that a lot OF
100 shares of stock in the OLD "York Bank"
was sold at public sale, by the orders of the
executors, on Saturday evening last. 1t was
sold in lots of 10 shares and brought an av-
erage of $40 27i per shares of S25, being an
advance of 80! pes cenI These prices are
as high as any obtained for some time past,
and as they are among the first sales since
the stockholders accepted ahe new charter
containing The "indiridual liability" clause,
go 10 show that the Introduction oil that fea-
ture in TO their Banking systems has not i'm
paired confidence in stockholders or depres-
sed the price Of Bank stock.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-07-03

Archbishop Hughes of New York is GER
tainly a great man, and can say a whole
some truth in the strongest and prettiest OF
ways. While in London, the Catholics invi-
ted him TO a public dinner, and in course OF
the evening he made a speech which has
created The highest admiration on both sides
of the Atlantic. DR.. Hughes is an Irishman
by birth, and an American citizen by adopt
ion. He left his native country early, when,
as he says, he discovered tina, 'the rights OF
his birth hadfbsea ueshed out by the rites
of his bapfsm"@n ecclesiastical pun
which gives the impress of wit to a melan-
choly truth.
Neatly and artfully-pleasanlly yet sadly
DIR. Hughes speaks of tie feelings connected
with his emigration, thus =
"1can remember still every line and cur
value of that horizon which was to. me.then
the end of The world still, when | beca me
master of the unhappy secret that was no
10 be on an equality with others of my coun-
trymen, the beauty Of the scenery faded, and
| thought there must be something beyond
the hofzon. cloud a2plause.) 1t was one
of those unfortunate secrets the communica-
ton of which removes the. bliss'o Ignorance
and | found | was under a State which
made distinctions among her children,
which was a mother, and perhaps more
than a mother TO some, and a stepmolher TO
the rest.n
"Of course, as soon as opportunity pres
ented itself, 7: like other driitwood from tho
old wreck, floated away On the western
wave, and fousd another land far beyond
the horizon | shave alluded to and there,
though | had no claim on her hospital ity,
that strange parent took me. TO her bosom,
and treated me as her child, and soon ranked
me in honors among her own most favored
and first born" (cheers.)
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Try'it.

A friend of ours says he is incredulous as
TO the feasibility of conveying coal through
a tube by the force of water. We answer
that the plan has been tried for a short dis
lance and found 10 work well. The pipe
can be put up for $1,000 a mile, and the IN
come on the transportation of only 10000
tons of coal per year would be $500.
A few years ago there was no one so low
as 10 do reverence to the idea tina: news
could be transmitted by lightning. So too it
was once voted ridiculous 10 think of ma
king vessels move by steam. Progress rules
this age, and if even the old Standstillians
did once make Calico say that the earth
stands still, it moves nevertheless.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-07-03
The New Postage Law.

This law will go into operation on The first
day of July next, and will operate 10 the tol-
lowing effect upon the STAR OF THE NoRTH,
I. Subscribers will receive il by mail, in
Columbia County, FREE OF POSTAGE.
2. For a distance not exceeding ffy miles,
al FIVE CENTS per quarter.
3. Over fifty and not exceeding three hun.
dred miles al TEN CENTS per quarter.
4. Over three hundred and not exceeding
one thousand miles, al FIFTEEN CENTS per
quarter.
5. Over one thousand and not exceeding
fTo thousand miles, at TWENTY CENTS per
quarter.
6. Over Two two thousand and not excee-
ding four thousand miles at TWENTY-FIVE
CENTS per quarter.
Those who desire a good, and decided
Columbia county Democratic paper, free Of
postage, should subscribe at once for the Star
of the North.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-07-03

WILL NOT ACCEPT TIE NoMNATIoN.-Lu-
cius B. Peek, nominated for Governor by the
Free Soil Convention, a. Burlington, YER
mont. declines to be a candidate, and gives
his reasons in a letter in the Montpelier Pa
triot. He says that he cannot assent TO the
resolutions passed by the convention, mas
much as he believes the fugitive slave law
to be constitutional, and he cannot admit
that the act passed by the late legislature,
authorizing the State courts 10 take by habeas
corpus a slave out of the hands of United
States. officers, is a just exercise of the pow.
ers of the State. Tits is rather a queer can
didate for the Free Soil party.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-07-03
Taxation and Governor Buster.

And a decree went forth in the days of
Claudius Cesar that all the earth should be
taxed, says the record of the olden time.
tt seems 10 us that we have fallen in The
evil days of a second Caesar. From the
ciown Of the head 10 the sole of the loot
everything bears the stamp of the taxgaiher-
or. In these days il is unlawful 10 open 4
house of amusement, a house TO eat in, TO
drink in without a license-and it is equally
forbidden 10 vend medicines either 10 kill or
cure, without the authority of the exciseman.
In fact, a tax is now imposed on people
for coming into the world and a like one for
going out.
And who would have thought that credit
would be claimed for a Governor who
brought about this thing? Yet even SO it is,
and infatuated men talk of slight reduction
of the state debt with such glee that an over
good %natured, unresisting men would almost
be driven 10 think the Governor paid this
state debt out of his own private purse, and
not from the public Golfers.
One of Governor Johnston's first acts was
10 suggest TO the Legislature some score of
new subjects for lax alton. Accordingly his
administration commenced by a law taxing
beer-houses, oy ster cellars, restaurants, eating
houses, billiard-rooms, bowling-saloons, ten
pin alleys, distilleries, breweries, verders Of
patent medicines and real estate brokers'
The lax upon theatres, c%ircuses, menaseries,
bill brokers and stock brokers was doubled,
and in some cases more than doubled The
TAX upon bank dividends and dividends OF
other corporations was also raised 10 double
its former rate. The militia fine has been
imposed on every citizen, and its payment
in money made compulsory. The official
report Of the State Treasurer shows that from
these new laws The following revenue has
been derived within the past year.
Distillery and brewery licenses, S4,2o3 81
Billiard room, bowling saloon and
ten-pin alley licences, 3,045 81
clearinghouse, beer house and res
taurants 6,53O 81
Patent medicine licenses 1888 Oh
Militia fines, say half, (Sl2 1853 10y 6,476 Sc
Brokers licenses, say half ($lo,-
2 1879 STA SO
Tax on bank dividends, (153,877 LAY $4,000
Theatres, c%ircuses &C., (increase) 1000 90
Premium on charters, SO, 1862 81
Tax on enrolment oflaws (increase) 1000 90
Collateral inheritance tax Gncrease 5000 90
Tax on new counties $50 90
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state debt and ehe did it without taxing
every mouthful in the ea,ing-house, or every
glass full in the %beer-house. He did not
urge that we should be taxed for enjoying
the amusements of life-taxed Tor our meat
in health and our medicine in sickness
taxed for our birth and taxed for our death
taxed for having lineal descendants 10 enjoy
an estate, and taxed heavier still tor leaving
it 10 collateral heirs. Then people could af-
ford 10 be born-could enjoy life in comfort
and if they got sick, could afford again 10
die in peace, but ,hese-these are the days
of TAXATION. Every thing is hedged up
by taxes except-lhe hot weather.
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O and Sheep,

Act of 23d March, 1909, Sec. 9Th.
If any dog shall be seen worrying sheep,
it shall be lawful for any person seeing the
same to kill Such dog or if any dog shall
have been known 10 worry sheep, and infor-
nation thereof be given to the owner oil
such dog, if he does not kill or cause him
to be killed, he shall make full compensa-
ton for all damages done by said dog; and
any person seeing said dog running at large
may lawfully kill him.
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Add 10 this the large increase of tolls
which the people pay upon the public works,
from a heavy increase of business, and we
can see where the money comes from which
pays the state debt. The Stale Treasurer
reports that the revenue from the act of 10Th
of April ls49, and which was passed upon
Governor Johnson's recommendation, was
$197, 1913 IA. This includes most of the
items in the above list, and shows that we
have not set our figures too high, for we in
clude the product of several other new rev.
euue laws.
Let the volers OF the commonwealth re-
member that these new tax laws, (at least
the heaviest one,) were passed upon the
special recommendation of Governor John
son, and let his administration be spoken of
as the era of TAXES.
Let it be remembered that Mr.. Evans OF
Chester, the leading Wing supporter of Gov
ernor Johnson prepared the tax act of ls49
which taxes everything with a double tax,
and that 1t was done at Governor Johnson's
recommendation in his message.
The people of Pennsylvania are ever
ready 10 bear the necessary burihens of sus-
tanning their government, state as we'll as
national but they do not wish 10 see the
demagogue send the tax gatherer 10 fleece
them, and then with pharisa,cal clustering,
tell how he has been a blessing 10 them and
paid their debts.
A Democratic Governor FIRST established a
sinking fund and paid off a portion Of the
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-07-03
General Scott

Says that for thirty odd gears he has scarce
Iy read any thing on the subject of slavery.
The following is his confession in a letter
written by him in 1919 -
"In boyhood, at William and Mary's Col
lege, and in common with most, if not ali
my companions. I became deeply impressed
with the views given by MIR. Jefferson, in his
"Notes on Virginia." and by Judge Tucker,
in the Appendix 10 his edition of Black
stones Commentaries, in favor of a gradual
emancipation of slaves. That Appendix /
have not seen in thirty odd years, and in the
same period have read scarcely anything on
the subject but my early impressions are
fresh and unchanged"
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-07-03

DREADFUL ACCIDENTAL boy aged about
l6 years named Daniel McConoway, was
caught in one of The coal screens, attached
to the works of the Lehigh Coal and Navi-
CATION Company, on Saturday the 21st ult',
and almost Instantly killed. HIS body was
horribly mangled and torn to pieces in coL-
sequence of the narrow space through which
he was forced by the machinery.-Car
Democrat.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-07-03

TIE LEGGETs GAP RAILROAD which eX-
lends from Soranlonia in the centre of the
Wyoming coal region 10 Great Bend near the
New York line is expected to be in running
order by the LIST of September. The people
of Central New York will be much benefit
ed by il for the purpose of obtaining cheap
coal
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-07-03

REVOLUTION IN PMNTING.-Mr. ]. S. Os-
bone, of Akron, Ohio, writes TO the Sciea-
ti6ie american that he has projected a print.
ing press, by which he thinks he shall be
able to print a Bible in one second of time.
The idea embraced is, TO have the forms
stereolyped and curved for cylinders, and 10
have the cylinders so duplicated as to print
both sides of the paper or book at one oper-
alton.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-07-03

A young lady appeared in the streets in a
western village, in the new style of 'pettl-
looms and short gown; y the dogs took after
her, taking her to be some strange animal,
run her some distance, and freed her or a
high fence.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-07-03

PowER's GREEK SLAvE.-We learn from
the New York Tribune, that there are three
copies of Powers Greek Slave. MIR. Power
made a statute of the Slave, several years
since, for Mr.. Grant, Of London. He repea-
ted il for Lord Ward, ond again for an Amer
nav ,;,u,leman whose name is not stated.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-07-03
A Model Jury.


/ Mr.. Dayton, the chief financier of the
Morris county Bank in New Jersey was last
week actually convicted Of perjury in swear
ing 10 an incorrect annual report of the
Banks finances. He swore that the Bank
al a given time had a certain amopnt of
:" specie funds" as required by law, when
in fact it had nothing but that amount of
bank notes. This is the usual process OF
business in these shaving shops, and is well
illustrated in the case of the Susquehanna
county Bank.
But the jurors who convicted a bank inan-
cier should be taken about the country and
exhibited as curiosities. Wonder where
Barnum is. He ought 10 see to this thing.
Talk who will about hearing Jenny Lind,
we want 10 see the jury that convicted a
bank financier. Wen buy the first ticket
if we can-or do almost anything else I'M
der the sun 10 see what manner of men they
are. We nominate the Foreman for Ptesi-
dent of the Union, and if he should happen
to be elected VIC hope he'll just be good
enough to remember that our paper was the
first one out for him and that ergo we're TO
be his Secretary of State. The rest of the
Jurors we hore will emigrate TO Pennsylva-
MIA where we can make Judges o. them.
"The Star belied Mrs. Freeze."-Columbia
Democrat.
The Star said nothing about Mrs. Freeze,
but referred 10 a story OF hers which the
Democrat palmed off upon the people OF
this latitude as "orieinal" after it had been
published as original in the Boston "Draw-
ing Room Companion and copied from
that paper into The Saturday Visiier." A ref.
erence TO either of these papers will show
that they give The lie 10 the Democrat when il;
denies its petty plagiarism. We never char
ged Mrs. Freeze with having any lot in the
matter, and the Democrat need not attempt 10
take shelter behind her. Let it settle with
the Companion and Visiter.
As 10 the C~olonels allusion to a commu-
~nication which he knew was published during
our absence at Willlamsport; we need only
say that it was not printed in any objectiona-
BILE manner-that only a filthy, grovelling
mind will hunt indeceucy, or can find indeli-
cacy where none was known by others or
meant 10 be, and where not W persons in
a thousand could see aught wrong. Decen-
cy does moi discover an indellcacy in an ac-
cidental ambiguity-only a blackguard
points it out, or loudly calls attention to it.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-07-03

UNION CANAL.-The Philadelphia Ledger
understands that the remaining 100000 of
the eight per cent. preferred stock issued by
ihe nn,on Caaal Company, for tho enlarge.
ment of the Western Division and Branch of
the Canal have been all subscribed, ard that
the work is fully expected to be flushed by
next September, and opened for the fall bus
siness. =
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-07-03

ANOTHER CONSTITUTIONAL TRIuNpH'-The
Reformed Constitution of Ohio, has peeh
adopted by a majority of 1855 votes, ac-
cording 10 the incomplete returns In the
Ohio Statesman. The banks made a desper-
ate struggle against ii, but it prevailed never
theless.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-07-03

TT 'Isn't the world older than it used 10
be w said a young hopeful 10 his senior.
eyes, my son" "Then what do folks mean
by old times? n "Go 10 bed, soaney, that's
a good boy, and wen talk of these things on
the morrow"
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-07-03

~" The Lewisburg Democrat says that the
hotels of that place are now regularly closed
on the Sabbath, and no liquor has been sold
on that day for several weeks past.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-07-03

The Connecticut Liquor Bill has been con-
cured in by both branches of the Legisla-
ture, which added a proviso that. on account
of its siringency-prohibiting the sale of ar
dent spirits in that Slate-it shall be first ap-
proved by the people.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-07-03

ryAmong the heaviest sufferers by the
late fire al San Francisco was Mr.. Joseph B.
Bidleman an %enterprising gentleman who
out TO California from Eas,on Pa. His
loss is $4,000.
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Lvcoming Insurance Company.

The last annual report of tie Lycoming
Insurance Company is published, and from
the list we notice the following losses by
fir, in this neiohborhood -
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D~aowNED.-on Tusday afternoon last,
James Dintinger was drowned i'll The river
Immediately below the bridge at, the upper
mines, the Tamaqua Legion says. ~.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-07-03

~ The Mauch Chunk papers give over
II, zoe, 900 feet as the extent of the Lehigh
lumber shipments the present season, to The
Dist inst.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-07-03

PourIcAL CoMPLIMENr.-They are not
over delicate at The West in their nicknames
Of candidates for Office, but the editor of the
Princeton (Ky.) Republican is too refined TO
call the Democratic candidate Tor Lieutenant
Governor Of that State "Greasy Bob" SO he
calls him ssO~leagenous Robert"
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During the year the Company has adjusted
claims for losses 10 the amount of S94,693,-
Ia very strong argument TO show the
utility of such companies.