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Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-09-01

MURDER AND SUICIDE.-Richard Mad
den, of Springfield township this county,
killed his wife, on Friday evening last, by
striking her several blows on the head
with piece of the head of q hogsheod +;
after which he dragged her under the
porch of the house. A small son was the
only human witness of the terrible deed
and he said,' Papa you hare killed mother,
to which the father replied Il lknOlo Ihave.
He then left the house, and search being
made for hin the next morning he was
found in a corn field near by, having hung
himself with bride. An inquest was
held over both the dead bodies on Friday
night and Saturday, and on Sunday they
we're both buricd-Mrs.-Madden in the
Baptist grave yard and the murderer
under the tree upon which he had hung
himself. No cause can be assigned fol
this terrible occurrence, unless We attrib
ute it to insanity, 1t is said that Maddcr
although a well doing, industrious maj
has frequently exhibited symptoms of in
sanity and it is probable that fit of de.
rangement having suddenly seized him, h'
unconscously committed this horrid deed
Madden was respectfully connected, ant
Mrs, Madden was a daughter of Mr.. Lock
of Black Log Valley, They leave nR
children.-Luat,ngdon Union.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-09-01
BEAUTIFUL INCIDENT.

Last Sunday afternoon, as Dr. TefIt
was opening hi. sermon in Norombega
Hall, small bird, swallow or a martin
began to soar and futter among the inches
and frescoes of that noble room and seem.
ed to take too much attention of the largo
audience there assembled. The speaker
paused q moment, and looking first at the
bird, then at the congregation, said THAT
he hoped his hearers would rot allow
themselves to be disturbed, for he was not
himself disturbed, by tho twittering OF
their little visitor. He received the visit,
indeed, as friendly omen, for he remom.
bered what the bard of Avon had put into
the mouth Of Banquo
This CUES, of su inner
The temple. haunting nartlet does approve.
BY his loved mansiOnfy, that the heavens breath
smells wooingly horc'
And he also remembered with still grea.
ter interest, what the Bard of Israel had
uttered upon the same subject:
"iow amiable thy ,abernaees
o Lord Of Hosts.
My soul ongcth yea iainieh fer the courts oftbs
Lord.
My heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God
Yea the sparrow hath fDani buuse,
| Ana the swallow nest for h rsilf
| Where she may lay her young"
He hoped that the religion of universal
love would so prevail among his people.
| that the heavens breath" would "smcll
wooingly there !" and that the place they
occupied would, by this means, become a
| spot SO soft and sunny, that the most de.
| fenselcss human inhabitants of earth might
dwell there with quietness, security, and
joy.
The little messenger lowered over the
congregation while his visit was being thus
disposed of, and then escaped into the
open world, to relate to his comrades, We
will fancy, what he had beheld and listen.
ed to in that place Of prayer.-WAig and
Ceuriy.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-09-01
Gboicc ].)oetrp.
THE HEARTS GUESTS.

THE HEARTS GUESTS.
When age has cast its shadows
Ger life's declining way,
And the evening twilight gathers
Round our departing day,
Thea, while we sit and ponder
On the deep and shadowy past,
Within the hearts still chambers
The guests will gather fast.
The friends in youth We cherished
shall cope to us once Wore.
Again to hold communion
As in days Of yOrc.
They iuay be stern aud sombrr;
They may bs bright and fair
But the heart VIII have its chambers;
The guests will gather tberc.
How shall II BE-, my sisters9
Who, then, shrl BE- our gutstsi
How shall it be, my brothers,
When the shadow on US rests
Shall We not, amid tn. silence,
In acccntu soft and low,
Then hear familiar VOICES,
hnI words vi long agOi
Shall we NJ, see dear'facss,
Sweet smiling as Of old,
Till the mists ofthat dear chamber
Are sunsets clouds Of gold.
When age has cast its shadows
Der liirs declining way,
And the evening twilight gathers
hound eur departing dayi
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-09-01
HISTORICAL FACTS.


dopt Improvements may be in some degree
illustrated by the following facts, hastily
thrown together:
Canal locks were invented in 1881, by
engineers of Viterbo, in Italy. They
were nearly q hundred years getting fair
ly into use in France and about one hum
dred and fifty in crossing the British Chan
nell
At this time it was made felony in sew
eral European states, to ride in wheel
carriages.
The steam engine was invented, or,
rather, the principle Of it discovered, by
the Marquis of Worcester as early as
1860. Few understood and none encour.
aged it. He died in great modification.
The honor was afterwards cngrossed by
Savary.
In 1765 the Earl of Stanhope applied
the steam-engine to propelling a vessel.--
A steamboat was run twenty miles on the
Sankey Canal, Liverpool, in 1897, and
another on the Forth Clyde Canal, in
1901. A steamboat trip was made on the
Delaware as early as 1871.
In 1907, when Robert Fulton was fit.
ting up his first steamboat at New York,
respectable and gray-headcd men pronoun
ced him fool for his pains"
Oliver Evans went before committees of
Legislatures, first in Pennsylvania, and
then in Maryland, with project of a
stcam-carriage, as early as 1904. He
askon little aid to defray the expense
They could hardly be prevented from re
porting in favor, not of stcam-eHg ines for
carriages, but of a straight jacket for him.
self. Now almost all nations, have had
the sagacity and ingenuity to seize and
utilize the precious idea.
When. Peter the Great, in 17G0 oil
thercabouts commenced canal between
the Wolga and the Don, the Governors
and Boyards of the country opposed il
earnestly thinking it impiety to turn riv-
crs out of channels which Heaven had
assigned them.
When some Dutchmen proposed to make
the river Manzanares navigablo to the
Tagus and that to Lisbon, the Council
said if it had been the will of God that
the river should be navigablc, he would
have made them so.
When Brinlcy, the great engineer told
a committee of Parliament, to whom
Bridgewatcr's petition was referred, tha
canals were better than rivers and woulc
supcrsedc them for the purpose of naviga
ton, the committee were shocked, an,
asked him, " And pray, sir, what wer
rivers made for ~ " To feed the canals,
was the answer.
Dr. Franklin surveyed the rout of tn
Delaware and Chesapeake Canal at hi
own expense in 1857.
Baron Napier surveyed the route tn
Forth and Clyde Canal at his own ex
pcnsc l76l.
Both of these works were subsequent
accomplished but after great delay.
DR.. Zabdiel Boyalston introduced in
, oculation for the SMALLPOX into Boston
in 1921, and tried at first on his so
Thomas, and other members of the famil.
but such was the force of prejudice ant
unbelicf that the other physicians gave
unanimous opinion against it; the mum
cipal government prohibited its practice
and the populacc would have torn him t
docies if he had not retired from the city.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-09-01

" MOTHER, %, word of undying
beauty Thine echoes sound along the
walls of time until they crumble at the
breath of the Eternal. In all the world
there is not a habitable spot where the
music of that holiest word is not sounded.
Ay, by a golden flower of the river, by
the crystal margin of the rock, under the
leaf of shade of the forest tree, and in the
hut built Of bamboo cane, in the mud and
thatched cottage, by the peaks of the
kissing mountains, in the wide spread
valley, on the blue ocean in the change
less de sert where the angel came down to
give the parched lips the sweet waters
of the wilderness; under the white tent of
the Arab and in the dark covered wgwam
of the Indian hunter wherever the pull
scs of the human heart quick and warm,
or hoat feebly along the current of fail
ing life therc is that sweet word spoken
like a universal prayer" Mother"
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-09-01

The TRACK OF THE METEoR.-The
track of the great meteor of the Goth OF
July is being gradually traced out. De-
troit, Michigan, was the furthest point
West at which it was first noticed, accor-
ding to the Cambridge astronomers. 1t,
however, appeared still farther West, as
we learn from correspondent of the AL
bany Journal of the I'd inst. writing from
Sycamore, DeKalb county, lllinoise who
describes it as ga shooting star, crossing
about one.half of the southern sky, from
west to east, moving slowly, and leaving
large track, like comet" Sycamore is
within hundred miles Of the Mississippi
river, and no doubt further information
from the West will prove that this frery
traveller in the armament first struck the
earth's orbit on or near the Pacific ocean
It's fight, says the Journal of Commerce
has already been traced 800 miles east
ward on the Atlantic Ocean, and ships YET
to come in will probably give us furthuI
accounts of its course. We sec no reason
to doubt the truth Of the theory published
in this Journal on the 23d, that this mete
or was fragment of a broken planet, oil
an accumulation of nebulous matter eircu
lating around the sun and ignited by the
friction of our atmosphere. Judged BY
the above facts, and also by the opinion o
astronomers, that the least diameter of thu
meteor was not less than half mile, there
is reason to believe that its velocity wa
not overcome by tho gravitation of thu
earth, and that it is still pursuing its eours
around the sun in an orbit whose plane i
eoineident with the planes Of motion Of tht
other bodies in the solar system.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-09-01

pV- A Poet says ooh, sho was fair
but sorrow came and left his traces there
What becans of the rest Of the harness b,
don't state.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-09-01

A THoUGHT.-When there is thought
in my heart, and l wish it to be in thine
also, seek sound, as it were, for ve-
hicle by which it may pass to thee. I take
a sound and, as it we've, put the thought
into it. Thus l utter, and produce, and
teach that thought, yet lose it not, If my
thought can 60 forth to thee and still re-
main with me, cannot the Word of God do
the same thing by means of the flesh which
he took on him? Behold the Word Of
God, God with God, the Wisdom of God
remaining increasingly with the Father
that he might proceed to US, sought ths
flesh, as it were sound, and introduced
himself into it. By this expedient he botE
proceeded to us and did not recede from
the Father.-Augustine.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-09-01
A COLLEGE YARN.

who were both students at OLD lale, were
out taking little run around the city, we
found ourselves, at rather late hour OF
the night, before the door of well known
grocer by the name of Snip.
"Stop moment" said P, turning and
gazing at Ships fancy sign that was
swinging to and fro in the breeze,
"What's upl" 1 asked, after P. had
eyed it for some time contemplativcly.
"Nothng in particular, Bob" said he,
! "but just give me little hoist here, and
III fetch that picture down in double
quick time. That Snip is scoundrel for
he presented my bill this morning, and
when l refused to pay it, he threatened to
inform the tutor
| No sooner asked than received the
sign was down and we were off in triumph
Sudden ly window opened, and out pop.
ped the head of Snip, crying:
"Bring that back, you informal young
villains Bring that back, now mind 1
tell yer"
No answer was returned, but = speci-
men of very tail walking took place. We
were soon in our room with the door lock-
ed, and the glittering prize before US, for
we had hung on to it like grim death. BY
the aid of an axe that CHANGED to be at
hand, it was soon reduced to pieces re-
markably adapted to our stove, into which
it was disappearing as fast as time would
permit. Ere it had passed from sight, We
were suddenly startled by the cautious
tread of two persons apparently nearing
our door. The steps of one we r0cog-
nizcd as being those of the tutor, and the
other we very rightly conjectured belonged
to the late proprietor of the relics around
u.s.
Here was fix for u.s. Enough of aho
sign left to convict us, and no place in
which to conceal it.
Rap, rap, rap, was sounded Mt the door
gave myself up to fate, and was about
to 60 and unlocked it, when / was arrest.
ed by the voice of F., exclaiming in the
most solemn tones imaginable
"From everlasting to everlasting art
Thou, Oh, Lord of Hosts"
Turning round IN astonishment, l be-
held my friend on his knees engaged in
prayer.
The outsiders we're evidently astonishe
as no further attack on the door took place
Ships confidence as the precise individual
was doubtless shaken in some degree. In
the meantime l took the hint and went to
| piling in the sign with a vengeance. ?
, spun out his prayer till the last piece wa;
) reduced to ashes, and raising his voice tc
a high key, he finished off with the quota
, ton
And oh, have mercy upon this wickc'
and adulterous generation, who go abou
seeking for SIGN, but shall have no SIG:
given them. A.m.e-n."
This last renewed the suspicious of the
outsiders, and they repeated the knocking
We opened the door they entered, anc
after minute search in every corner the,
gave it up, and decided that We were no
, the guilty ones. Still noticed, as ou
victim disappeared, his last gaze turnet
most wistfully on our stove.
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| The TRACK OF THE METEoR.-Ih'
= track of the great meteor of the Goth o
,Julv il beino gradually traced out, De
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-09-01
SABBATH READING.
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The dove, lot loose in eastern skies,
Returning fondly home
NI'er stoops TO earth her wing, nor flies
Where idle wnrblers roam.
But high she shoors, through air and light,
Abote all low delay
Where nothing earthly bounds her flight,
Nor shadow dins her way.
SO grant me, Lord from every stain
Ofsinfui passion free.
Aloft on mcrry's pinions borne.
70 steer my course to thee.
No sin 10 cloud, no lure to stay
My soul as home she springs
Thy sunshine on her Joyful way,
Thy freedom OH her wings.
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Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-09-27


New YORK, September 26-P. M.-OOtton
firm and demand fair: sales $500 bales at lO2c. for
mddlng Uplands.
Flour 5oGiOc better, but transactions materially
restricted by the advanced prices insisted up n by
holders; sales 900 brls at 81 l55 20 for superne
Sate So 455 55 for extra State IS 1905 20 for SUI
peTine Western; s. 1905 20 for common to medium
extra Western and IS 75615 80 for shipping brands
extra round-hoop Ohio, closing rather quiet: Cana
dian Flour tlifle better, with limited business do
iug sales 400 brls. at So 5Oa7 90 for common to
choice extra. Rye Flour quiet and unchanged, with
small sales, at SO 1904 40 for common 10 choice ex
ira, Corn meal quiet and Unchanged sales % brls.
Baltimore at 50 vs.
Whisky continues steady, with moderate demand;
sales 400 brls. at 23A2SRc., chiefly at the inside
Wheat Ia &c. higher, but the advanced prices ma
terially check the demand: sales 1900 bush white
Michigan at 81 3O@l 80; 1900 bush amber Iowa at
81 2iGl %; $4,000 bush. No. Chicago spring al
81 2iCa %; 956O bush. white indiana at 81 33ta 35
% eco bush. Milwaukee Club at 81 23G1l 2j; 1900
Lush soft amber Western at 81 %; 25,0OO bush. win
ter red Western at 81 2stdl 20, for good to prime
so for choice do Rye heavy and declining; salel
in limited supply, and market shade frmer; trans
actions have only been to limited extent sales o.
6hfc. oats IN mndeTate request at unchanged
prices: 37d39c. for Western, Canadian and state
Hops firm with good demand: sa,es 200 bales at 81
d3lc for 1860.
Pork quiet and unchanged: sales of 600 barrels al
$40 80 for new $40 for old mess Slil4 25 fol
new prmei Sl3 25 for old. Beef dull, aud un
changed sales of $50 brls. at S464 % for country
PRIME; S5@5 90 for country mess; S7dlO for re
packed mess $40 50Ml5 80 for extra mess. PrimC
mess Beef and Beof Hams dull and unchanged. Gut
Meats dull and heavy sales of Is packages at SAD
g14c for shoulders. Lard very quiet: sales Of 27;
brls. at I24@l3bc., and small lots at l3I4c.
for State. Cheese stesdy With moderate business
doing at q@ll16c. for inferior TO prime.
Crhee quiet, and We hear of only loo bags Ceylon
sales of 65 hhds. Cuba at 66@7lkc; $50 hhds do on
private terms, and 1853 boxes Havana at 64c.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-09-27
Cincinnati nInrIzet.

"WEDNESDAY EVENING, September 20.
FLOUR-The market was quite firm to-day, but
tho demand continues llinitod Iat 65615 10 as the
range for sdpcrne, for which there Is the most in
red wheat at IS TO- 50 DE- extra SIS 2o ids do Union
Mills, red wheat, at % 10; 2OO do extra, at s. 49,
1850 do Petersburg Mills, al s5 IS
+ WHISkH-Tho demand Is fair and the market
steady; sales Of 500 barrels at lsAls6c, the latter
PROViSfoNS-MessP Pork is very dull, and first
class city brands were offered to-day at sis 49, Ba-
con dull, and the demand quite limited. sales Of
Importance; Shoulders were offered at SAc., though
they are generally held at &c. .r- TE
OlL-Sales Of lis barrels Linseed at 57c., indi-
eating good demand and frmer market.
GRUCERlES-Ihe market Is very quiet, and the
demand but moderate sales Of Sugar at SG19}sc.
Coffee at IAN @gl556c., and Molasses at 42gi3c.
vanced &c. per bush, closing firm at 81 l0@l q for
prime red, and 81 l5@l l. for prime white; sales Of
1000 bush prime red at 81 0j $40 do. prime Wtite Rt
81 l6; 800 do do. red at 81 l2i 800 do fair do. at
81 0s; so do do. white at 81 10,
CoRN-The demand is good at zoe. for ear, IN
bulk, and 57035gc for mixed and white shelled, in
cudiug sacks: sales $50 bush ear, in bulk, at SOC
$50 o. do. at NJ. 4 q. II. r., at 4se
OATS-The demand is fair, aud the market steady
at 30c., in bulk sales 600 BUSH, In bulk, at 30c
RYE-The market is firm and the demand good at
6S@10c. for prime.
BARLEY-TheIe is good demand for prime fall
at 9jc and for choice lots 81 Is obtained; the lower
HA1-The receipts are light and the demand
good and prices advanced to SIG 90 per tun for prime
Timothy, in bales, arrival.
| CHEESE The demand is good and the market
firm at g1hc. for Western Reserve and l0c for Ham
| burg; sales 100 boxes Western Reserve at gtkC.
at la6 Ice, for Central Ohio and Western Reserve;
/ common is dull at gtdllc.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-09-27
The nItnufncture of stenric Candles.

The designation of stearic is applied to
those candles which are made from the iso-
lated solid fatty acids in contradistinction to
those consisting of pressed tallow or lard
stearin-although, in commerce, both are
called stearine candles. The manufacture of
stearine candles is on the decrease, and tallow
is now very rarely pressed. The stearin
from cocoanut oil is however, still prepared
in considerable quantities, and mixed with
steaTic acid, and manufactured into the nu-
merous kinds of composite candles now in
such general use. The foundation upon
which the manufacture of stearic acid can
dies is based is the saponifcation of fats and
the separation Of the fatty acids from the
soaps One of the greatest difficulties to be
overcome in this manufacture, was, to pre-
vent the crystalization Of the stearic acid
during the molding of the candles. The first
attempt made was to introduce another acid;
and although successful in its immediate
object, the choice-arsenious acid-was an
unfortunate one, for, although this delete
rious substance was added only in very mi
mute quantities, yet its use was entirely
incompatible with health. The means now
employed are, the addition of very minute
quantity of wax to the stearic acid; or, a
still more common plan is to allow the melted
acid to cool down almost to the point Of con-
gelation before it is poured into the molds,
which are warmed to the same temperature
as the fatty acids. The refrigeration and
occasional stirring of the liquid fat produces
a sort Of liquid pulp which congeals in the
molds without capitalization.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-09-27
The Character of True Hearts.

Hearts are of several kinds and Of widely
different natures. First there are walled-up
hearts; and there arc two kinds about one
kind the wall is high and strong, and to sur
Inount II is a work of extreme difficulty; put
if you get inside you have entered Eden.
Fragrant and sweet, and far as the Visions
seen in dreams, is that inclosed gardenj and
it is worth labor to gain admission there.
The other has a wall as high and as strong,
and full as hard to get over, and when at
last, with torn flesh and dislocated joints,
YOU have scaled it, you wish you hadn't, for
thereis nothing inside but rocks and cold
water. The trouble with these two de-
scriptions of hearts is, that It's impossible to
distinguish one from the other until you
have almost worn yourself out in climbing
the walls. Another kind of heart is that
which, having nothing to. fence IL in, lies
open to the passage of all men and cattle; a
waste, unfruitful field, of no use to any body,
and less to its owner. But there is another
kind of heart-a rare creation, but real
one whose wall is low and almost hid by
flowers. The birds make their nests in il
and sing as they swing upon its swaying
twigs and testooning vines. Beyond the
wall, itself "a thing of fragrance, beauty and
joy, lie the enchanted gardens. Delightful
bowers invite the way-worn traveller to enter
and repose. Spirits of love and beauty
beckon the sad and lonely ones to the feast
of souls, and a charmed light and glory
hover or the whole joyous air. This is the
true type of hearts.