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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1870-02-11
EXCHANGE HOTEL.
pIpoMSRITRG COIITMBIA Co PA

The undersigned having purchased this we'll
known and centrally located house, the EN-
change Hotel, situate on MAIN STREET, in
bloomsbury, Immediately opposite the Colum-
their friends and the public in general that
their house is now in order for the reception ana
ed to favor 1t with their CUSTOM They have
spared no expense in preparing the Exchange
for the entertainment OF their guests neither
shall there be anything wanting ON their part Ia
minister TO their personal comfort. The house
is spacious, Hnd enjoys AN excellent business To-
cation. -,
Omnibuses run at all times between the Ex-
change HOtel and the various railroad depots,by
which travellers will be pleasantly convey ed To
and from the ret pectiVe stations In due time IL
meet he cars hOONS q CLAIM
Bloomsbury, April 3, 1865,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1870-02-11

AN Ohio paper relates the following
court scene "At the last term of our
court of Common Pleas, in the case of
Miss--vs.-, AN impeaching wit
ness was called and asked the usual
questions: 'Doyou know the reputation
Of Mr. for truth and veracity in the
neighborhood where he resides Y'Well,
said the witness, his reputation for
truth is very good, but his reputation
about What do you mean by yeraci.
typ said the cross,examining attorney
why, mean he's bad after the wi,
min"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1870-02-11
prick HOTEL,
oRANGEvILLE, COLUMBIA COUNTY. PA.
ROHR M'HENRY, Proprietor.

This well known House, having been put In
Thorough repair, il now open 70 the travelling
nubllc. The bar is stocked with the eholeesI
iiauors and cigars and the table Will be. at all
iinessuppiied with the delcacies OF the season;
No pains VIII be spared TO insure lhe eoihioii oi
0Iangeynle, dec, No. G9'if
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1870-02-11

A girl in Wisconsin swallowed forty
percussion caps. Her mother refrained
from spanking her for fear of an explos-
ion.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1870-02-11
VOLUME w NO. 6.
Orangeville Directory

A & T.. W. COLEMAN, Merchant Tailo,s ana
~: Gent ts furnishing goods, Main st.. next door
'o the brich Hotel. vl-ni7
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-03-09
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-11-14
EFFECT OF DIVISION.

The New York Tribune says the repub-
lcans of that State were overwhelmed III
1868 by gigantic frauds, bat this year ar
though cheated some by the democrats the
cause of defeat is with the republicans
themselves. Nearly one hundred thousand
republicans remained at home on account
of the feud between Conkling and Fenton,
who were more hostile to each other than
to the common adversary. So long as
this is the case the Tribune says the party
must be beaten, which is very proper
conclusion indeed to arrive at, The Ifi-
June undoubtedly states the matter exact
" as it is in regard TO the election, but
whether it will succeed in beating any
sound sense into the rival factions in the
republican party is not very certain. Such
factions oftener make a Kilkenny cat
fight of their rivalry before they get
through with it, than become sensible and
decent in their politics. If examples OF
their folly were needed they may be found
all the way in our political history, and
nowhere more prominent than in New
York
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-11-14

anvil on which he sat stuck fast to him, and
had to have it amputated.
1t is five years since nitro-glycerine came
into use. The one thousand seven hundred
persons whom it has killed or manned for
life, and the millions of property which it has
destroyed, may be styled recommendations of
its efficiency.
"Do you consider your life worth more
than other peoples? Indignantly asked a
gentleman of a negro, who was the first to
leap into boat from a snagged steamboat on
the Mississippi. ats with a heap more to
me, marster," was the unanswcrable reply.
One of the greatest curiosties of the age
is now on exhibition at the fair grounds at
Lynchburg, Va, in the form of a full-blood-
ed negro child fifteen months old, half of
whose body is pure white and the other half
pure black. The child was born on the farm
of Mr.. Shearer, in Appoma!tox county.
The demise of General Lee is developing
the poetic talent of the South in remark
able manner. Here is the way one of the
gushers commences his tribute to the departed
soldier:
GLOW grandly he rode !
With his eyes on fire,
As his great bosom shood
With an awful desire !"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-11-14
Administration, and it might have added
cutting their own threats.
WAR ,SPLINTERS.

The project of summoning the North Ger
man Parliament to meet at Versailles is
taking shape and will probably be carried in
to effect.
The director of the Jardin DIES Plantes has
sold the animals to the butchers. Buffaloes
bring high prices.
The Prussians continue to force the most
eminent citizens living on the railway lines
to ride upon the locomotives, the object being
to prevent accidents to the trains.
The journal Des Droits de J. Hon,me pub
lished at Montpelier, sets price on Bazaine's
and Napoleon's heads, and opens sub
scription to pay for their assassination.
A decree, just promulgated, orders all
soldiers who escaped from Sedan to return to
military duty within eight days. The require
ment applies only to those untrammelled by
the articles of population.
AS fast as the newly-levied recruits become
familiar with military eyoutions, the Land
wehr. men of family, who have been longest
in the service, are sent home. Recently l.
regiment.
As an evidence of the tenacious national
spirit of the French, we hear of a chasseur
who was recently shot at Inglestadt for an at
tack on Lieutenant who had him in charge
lie fell waving his cap and shouting, g Vtre
Ia FrdHce!"
Il Il
date election to put an end to the arbitrary
rule of the Provisional Government. The
Moniteur mentions five military executions
on Saturday last, through RED influences,
at Lyons and Marseilles.
Won Room, the Prussian Minister Of War,
is even more severe sufferer by the present
conflict than has been supposed. In addition
to one son killed and two wounded his SON
n-law was terribly mutillated in late battle,
having received among other wounds, seven
lance thrusts
Twelve Turcos, who were on the way TO
the town to which they were allotted In charge
of single soldier, threw their escort from
the ear while it was in motion; fortunately,
he escaped without serious INJURY, put al 'he
next station they were taken out, court-mar-
tailed and shot.
A smart German sergeant took for his tar
get balloon that was passing overhead
toward Paris, from Metz, and hit 1t twice
while it was at an altitude of GOO yards, and
sailing along with great swittness. When 1t
began to sink, a company of hussars were
sent out to anticipate its fall, and they cap
turcd it at Ponilly, within the French lines.
General Barral, who commanded the artil-
lery at Strasbourg, was arrested at Grenoble
on a charge of treason against the republic.
The mob assembled before the Generals ho-
tel, crying out, ave are the sovereign peo-
pie. Down with the servants of the empire .
1t was with great difficulty that Barral was
rescued from the hands of the mob and con-
veyed to the prison of St. Joseph.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-11-14

Virginia gives gain to the conservatives
of one member of Congress. The delegation
in the House now is five republicans to three
conservatives, but the election will change it
to four each.
Wisconsin shows republican majority OF
about C GOO but the 1st district sends demo-
crat to Congress instead of republican
1t is impossible to give the exact results in
all cases, on account of difficulty Of commu-
nication in many places, closeness Of the vote
in some districts, and other circumstances that
interfere with perfect returns, but the above
sketch gives good idea OF the general re-
suit in all the States which held their elections
lat wcck.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-11-14
GENERAL NEWS.

French papers now style Eugene, Madame
Bonaparte.
Vermont has refused again to pass bill al
lowing more than six per cent. interest
A duplicate of the lost missionary ship
Morning Star is to be built at once.
A Chicago hotel amuses its boarders by
skillet duels between the cooks.
A Young girl was killed by she'll at Toul
who was born at Sebastopol during the seige'
and a bursting shell caused her mothers
death.
Thomas jefferson, of Chicago, is patentee
of a plan for having mullins every meal. lie
mounds his wife over the head with a bed-post
The Mississippi Supreme Court decides
railroads liable for damages for carrying pas
sengers beyond their destination.
Brigham Young, in a recent sermon, told
his hearers that the aborigines of this country
belonged to the 'House of Israeli
The Troy Press, with rare felicity in choice
of words, speaks of an Albany undertaken
sporting" 81, ZOO hearse.
A female burglar of sooty hue has come to
grief in Columbus, Ca, by sticking fast in
chimney flue.
An Irishman in recommending COW re-
marked ''She will give milk year after year
without having calves, because she came OF a
COW that never had a calf"
The Sun says that the Cuban volunteers OF
Havana and other Cuban cities have cast of
all allegiance to Spain, and have dispatched
an emissary to treat with the President OF the
Cuban Republic.
An Ohio widow was requested by the dear
departed's aristocratic relatives to give false
name when she went out washing, so as not
to disgrace the family. Such thoughtfulness
is touching.
The returns of all postmasters in the coun-
try of the free matter leaving their Offices IN
the first six months of this year show that if
it had all paid postage the receipts therefrom
would have been 81, 0Q0,0 900.
Says Josh Billings of November:
"Thc butterfly has hung up his fiddle
The bug and the cricket are stu;
No more can be heard in the marshes,
The musquito ding his bill"
Galyestonian, whose henery has been rob
bed of five Brahmas, requests the thief to
call and ''take away the rooster, as he is very
lonely, and no questions will be asked"
A Boston lady proposes, the authorities
permitting and the police protecting, to plant
Virginia creepers or woodbines to cover the
unpicturesque tele graph poles in the rural
districts.
There is double headed baby lately born
in Gallon, Ohio, having two heads and two
bodies as far as the waist, where it is joined.
1t is expected to live and is quite healthy.
One of the heads goes to sleep while the 9TH
er looks bright and wakeful.
The NATION Journal says Democratic
candidate is bewailns the fact on every stump
in that district that ''the tax is taken off OF
manners what we don't use, and kept on
whisky-schat lee do :"
They tell of a spring in Michigan so strong
ly magnetic that a man who had drunk from
it, and went into blacksmith shop, found the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-11-14
pOLITICAL.

Patent commissioner Fisher has retired
from his Office.
The most prominent candidate for L. S.
Senator from New Jersey are ex-senator FIRE.
linehuysen. Cornelius Walsh ard Secretary
Robson.
The republicans will have from fityto six
ty majority in the new House.
There is loud talk of bribing in the Rhode
Island election and some arrests have been
made
The Washington Chronicle is authorized to
state that there is no foundation for the dis
patch telegraphed to the New York Herald to
the effect that Mrs. Cox had sent to Mrs.
Grant an article from a newspaper abusive Of
the President.
The Boston Post is indignant because the
republicans of Massachusetts will not emil ark
in the work of critlcising ard coudemning the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-11-14
domestic Mems.

The Press says that when the train from
Quebec arrived at the Grand Trunk depot in
Portland, on Thursday afternoon, very
pleasing sight was presented There came as
of from ten to sixteen years of age, sent over
to Canada by Mrs. Rye, the great English
philanthropist, who were on their way to go
into families in ST. John. a hundred others
had already been dispatched to Mrs. Ryes
farm at Niagara, who came over in the same
steamer with those that were going to St.
John. They were bright, rosy-cheeked,
healthy looking English girls and boys, who
World.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-11-14

The Increase in some Of these States is very
small but none Of them show any falling off.
1t appears that New Hampshire is the only
State in the Union which has absolutely di-
mnished in population during the last decade.
The greatest proportional gain in any State is
Nevada; but as it was the smallest of States
when il was admitted, this is no more than
what was to have been expected. The largest
actual gain Is in Illinos--over 500, 000-whch
brings her up to within 100000 OF Ohio, but
leaves her us before, the fourth State in pop
u!atiou. The relative order Of the States as
70 population is not materially changed, but
Missouri cutstrips Indiana and becomes the
ffth State. Indiana is the sixth, Massachu-
sets is the seventh, aad then f How Kentucky,
Tennessee, Virginia, Georgia, Michigan Iowa,
Wisconsin, North Carolina and Alabama-in
all sixteen States which have upwards of one
million inhabitants. In 1860 there were but
eleven such Iowa has made the greatest
lump in rank. She was the nineteenth in
1860, she is now the thirteenth. North Caro-
lima, on the other hand, stood twelfth in 1850,
and now drops to the fourteenth place, and
Alabama now stands as the sixteenth, where
as she was the thirteenth ten years ago.-BoS-
ton ddre3tissT.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-11-14

The Montevideo correspondent of the New
York Herald pays a handsome compliment to
Hon. John l.. Stevens, when in late letter
he says; "The opposition press has of late
been rather severe on foreigners and their
representatives especially against the Ameri-
can Minister, Mr.. Stevens, because of the
zeal evinced whenever American interests are
eopardized."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-11-14

Messrs. Wheeler & Briggs have completed
their steam grst mill at Poland Corner, and
are now ready for business. The engine is
fed from an inexhaustible fountain of water,
and has the capacity of twenty-five horse
power. The building is two-story, 45x25 and
situated in the centre of the village. The
upper story, as yet unfinished, is to be fur
nshed with stave-mill and other machinery.
The estimated cost is upwards of S5000
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-11-14

The Bangor Wing says the workmen at
Palmer & Johnsons Mill have been doing a
days work worth a notice. b. w. Palmer
sawed with one gang and Ed. Graffam edged.
"a ,2G5 feet of one, two and three inch spruce.
Michael Frawley sawed and Joseph Lesson
edged 43, 100 feet. Amor Lane sawed with
single saw, 9,277 feet-making 1855 feet
of spruce cut in one day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-11-14

There is much rejoicing, by all classes
having freight to or from Boston, over the
change of gauge between Waterville and Ban
gor. 1t saves much expense and vexatious
delays at Portland, by which Bangor, espec-
tally, has suffered seriously for many years.
Farmers on this line have been able on this
account to get material rise in the price OF
some kinds of produce-potatoes IN particu-
lar. Buyers save not only in expense OF
handling but in risk of freezing - WaterriHe
Mail.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-11-14

Commander James Thornton has been or
dered to navigation duty at Kittery navy yard,
and commander McCaulley has been detached
from navigation duty there and ordered to
the Naval Academy. On the 9TH inst, 40
workmen were discharged from the Navy
Yard, thirty of whom were Maine men.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-11-14

The following table exhibits the census re-
turns, nearly or quite complete, in twenty
eight Of the States. 1t will be observed that
the list does not include any of the Eastern
States, New England, New York, Pennsylva-
MIA or New Jersey. The returns from all the
.,l,are cra ci,roO.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-04-14

JOHN JoHNsTON'S remarkable success
as farmer is owing, first, to the man him
self-tO his rare good judgment, combined
with indOmitable energy, persevering in
dustry, close observation, anu prompt, in
telligent action. Second, TO underlrain-
ing. Third, to the free use of plaster on
clover. Fourth, to consuming all the
clover, straw and corn on his farm. He
has raised 5000 bushels of corn in a year,
but none had been exported from the farm
except some which he gave to be sent to
Ireland at the time of the famine He
never sold bushel. 1t has all been fed
out with the clover, straw, stalks, NC,
raised on the farm. In addition To this,
he has bought large quantities of oil cake
to feed sheep and cattle, and this has
added greatly to the quality of the ma
nure heap. Fifth, he bestowed great care
on his summer fallows. They were not
allowed to grow up to weeds, but were
repeatedly plowed, and narrowed, and
rolled, and cultivated, until the stitlest
clay was reduced to almost as fine filth
as an English turnp field Such thor
ough tillage is itself more than equivalent
to heavy dressing of our common ma
nure.
Undertaking enabled him to work his
land thoroughly and in good season. This
thorough tillage set free the latent plant
food in the soil. The clover took root
and organized it into food for sheep The
sheep extracted the fat from the clover
hay, and left the nitrogen and mineral
matter in the manure heap. So of the
corn, straw and stalks. They all found
their way back TO the land, with ol-cake
in addition. 1t is easy to understand why
his land is vastly more productive Chan
when it first came into his possession
Undertaking, good culture and good ma.
nurc will make any land rich.-1me5fcan
! Agricutu1ia.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-04-14
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Power.
Said the Rev. Mr. Beecher, the other
night, in discussing the School question !.

Said the Rev. Mr. Beecher, the other
night, in discussing the School question ::
=. American ideas have philosophical basis, and
hey stand for very distinct ideas of government
and policy. ! do not speak with disrespect of
european ideas hold that their idea il COnsOli-
uanoh oil The functions Of government in one cen
ttal power. while the American idea il the dsD, r
sion OF these functions in many powers y
Had Mr.. Beecber spoken of the mast
MS conclusions would have been true !:
put, speaking as he did of the present
which ne commends. they are very far
from true. The old Constitution
Constitution of rS9-aras founded
upon philosophical basis, and American
ideas then and for a long time after stood
for very distinct ideas of government and
policy. The ideas OF the men who framed
the fundamental law were a government
of the People for the People. They re-
corded all the powers which, for COM
mon good, the States yielded to Congress,
the President, and the judiciary. They
reserved all other powers for the States
and the People respectively. Nothing Is
clearer upon the record than these re-
served powers, or the powers granted tn
the Federal Legislature. The luminous
minds OF the great men who created the
Constitution in the light of experience.
and in the dread Of European ideas. made
all clear and plain, but what was then the
great fear is now the practice, and Mr.
Beecher must be very blind, or a very
superficial observer, not to see that
il is the United States which IS
now consolidating the functions of
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-04-14

government in one central power" 1t
is absurd in the face of what we see and
read to talk of the dispersed functions OF
government. Congress not only rules
the Executive, but the Judiciary. 1t al
lows not even those rights to minoritles
which justice and equity, as well as the
Constitution, assures them. No Demo-
cratic Senator or Representative Is per-
mitted to hold seat if its possession
would give the minority in either side one
member over One-third of the Senate, and
one-third of the House. Congress now
regulates the suffrage in States, disfran-
chises whom it will, and enfranchises
| whom it will. Such consolidation in one
department of the State over the other
two, and over States and people, is
enough to make the bones of Washing
ton and Madison start from their graves
While Europe is really more and more
dispensing the functions of government
particularly Great Britain, France, Spair
and Italy-the United States is more ane
more consolidating the functions OF gov
ernment The moral effect of this cen
tralization is deplorable; and, as the ap
petite for power grows by what it feeds
upon, so the measure and extent oil thes'
usurpations should at once arouse the Ell
ergetic opposition of every sincere love
of his country.-Neao York HrPfes'
| dpTis |.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-04-14
Stirring Soil Around Trees.

OPENING or tightening the soil around
the roots of trees, either in the spring or
fall, for the purpose of letting in warmth,
and ailOrding freer medium for the eX-
pansiOn and development of the roots, is
of great value in promoting the health and
vigOr of the tree. All trees, whether
fruit or ornamental, young or old, indigo
nous or exotic, arc vastly benefited by this
process. In old orchards, the soil about
the trunks of trees, and To considerable
distance from them, in every direction,
should be carefully broken, and the upper
surface, TO the depth of three or four
inches, removed in the spring, every four
or five years. The eggs of the curCuli0
ana other insects are deposited in this
stratum, and, if not removed or destroyed
Will produce insects, the rayagcs of which
the succeeding year will be productive of
Ear greater loss than the expense of re-
moving the soil, and replacing it with com
post or loan. 1t is an utterly hopeless
undertaking to attempt the cultivation OF
good fruit, when no measures are resorted
To- to obviatc the fatal ravages of This dctest-
able and insidiQus Toe, and the remedy
now suggested is by no means expensive,
if we take into consideration the adyan-
tages otherwise resulting to the trees from
its application.
Amy good soil, taken from the open
fields or cultivated lands, may be used as
a substitute for compost, and a very small
quantity will suffice. Even if no fresh
matter is applied, would recommend the
removal of the surface soil, and would
replace it when convenient. Chip manure,
or cd dung covered with straw, answers
well for that purpose. - Gcymahtoton 7de-
grdph