The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1868-03-06

The Columbian
pLoOMsBURG, FRIDAY, MARCH O, ,ss.
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READ the new dvertiscments in this
weeks COLUMBIAN.
WE have now had uninterrupted
Isleighing for about three months, a
uyery unusual record.
THE house and lot on Third Street,
Iadjoi ming the Ten Pin Alley, has been
Ysold to j. j. Brewer for $500 90.
Il Now Is the time to subscribe for THE
}CoLUMBIAN, which is the best, largest
land handsomest newspaper published
in the County.
! THE snow during the last week of
February has been unexampled in
amount. If the snring opens with II
rain the floods will be extraordinary.
A FARM of about 100 acres situate in
Maine Township, late the estate of Hen
ry Bauman deceased, on last Tuesday
was sold to David S. Brown at $50 90
per acre.
THOSE of our subscribers, who,
from any cause, have failed to receive
Senator Buckalew's last speech on Re
construction by informing us of the
fact will be supplied,
THE Democrats carried the borough
Of Holldaysburg on Friday last by a
majority of siXty-fve. This is gain
of forty over the majority Of last fall
The ball keeps moving.
On Thursday morning portion of Il
coal train on the l.. & b. II. r., got of
the track, while running over the tres
tle-work near Rupert, and so injured ii
as TO prevent the passage of trains.
PERsoNAL.-We were favored to-day
with q call from Capt. Brockway, OF
the Coiun,bidn, the best edited paper
in the district, and not to be eXccllcd
in the State.-iSuiiir0n Democrat.
A ATELEGRAM just received announces
the nomination by the Democratic Con-
vention of Charles T.. Boyle for Auditor
General, and Gen. w. II. Ent of this
county for Surveyor General. We will
go in on that ticket.
FIRE.-About o'clock on Monday
morning last, the Bonded Warehouse
and rectifying house of Reuben Miller,
Of Foundryville, in this County. was
consumed by fire. Loss estimated al
from $4,000 to $1,000. Insurance sup
posed to cover about $1,000. The fire il
supposed to be the work of an incen-
diary.
DoN'T.-Don't advertise; it ic bad
plan. 1t will call attention to your
place of business, and it is much better
for people who wish to trade with you
to hunt you up. 1t gives your custom.
ers exercise and makes them healthy
Besides, if you advertise, somebody will
buy up your goods, and then you vii
have to get more, and it will be great
bother to you.
OUR townsman, Daniel w. johnson
has just secured patent from the Uni
ted States for the design of an improved
whiffle-tree. The apparatus is simple
and the object is to be able in case o
danger, or for any other reason. to in
stantly detach the horse from the car
riage or other vehicle, by simply pull
ing string or wire. We have no doub
of'its practical utility.
THE Springfield Republican is ver.
emphatic in dcnuncation of the propO
sition in Congress to declare the Con
stitution of Alabama ratified and th
State to be back in the Mon. 1t say
it is "a fraud at heart and fraud Ol
its face,n and as containing lie tina
would sink, and that ought to sink
any party" It refuses to believe tina
such bill can possibly pass through
Congress.
WE congratulate p. John of the Re
publican on having at last secured IA
ally in his abuse and vituperation of tb
COLUMBIAN. 1t is true his aid eXhih
its but little genius or vigor; he copio
Palcmons slang phrases and epithets
he rehashes the weak and stale argu
ments with which the public has lon
since been wearicd. But nevertheless
he has an ally, and we congratulate L
John accordingly.
A SAD AND FATAL ACCIDENT.-Ju'
as we go to press, we learn that AS til
freight train on the l.. 4 B. RailrOa
was passing through this Borough, b'
tween Mill and Church streets n brake
man on the train was uncoupling III
cars, when they suddenly drew up an
threw him on the track, and sever;
cars passed over his body, maigin
and cutting his legs and thighs an
the lower part of his body in mos
fearful manner. He is still living an
sensible, but the physicians say he cal