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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1870-07-01

AN EXPENSIVE CURIOSITY.-On of
the saddest things that ever came under
my notice (said the bankers clerk,
was there in Corning, during the war.
Dan Murphy enlisted as private, and
fought very bravely. The boys all lik-
Il him, and when Il wound by and by
W eakened him down till carrying a
musket was too heavy work for him,
they clubhed together and fixed him up
as sutler. lie made money then and
sent it always to his wife to bank for
him. She was a washer and ironer, and
knew enough by hard experience to
keep money when she got it. She
didn't waste penny. On the contrary
she began to get miserly as her bank
account grew. She grieved to part
with IA cent, poor creature, for twice in
her hard working life she had known
W hat it was to be hungry, cold, friend
less, sick, and without dollar in the
world, and she had haunting dread of
suffering SO again. Well, at last Dan
died, and the boys in testimony of
their esteem and respect for him, tele-
graphed to Mrs. Murphy to know if she
would like to have him embalmed and
sent home, when you know the usual
custom was to dump II poor devil like
him into shallow hole, and then in
form his friends what had become of
him. Mrs. Murphy jumped to the con-
clusOn that it would only cost two or
three dollars to embalm her dead hus-
bands she telegraphed "Yes." 1t was
at the "wake" that the bill arrived and
was presented to the widow. She utter
ed wild, sad wall that pierced every
heart. "Sivinty foivo dollars for STUFF,
fin Dan, blister their sowls! Did thin
divils think l was goin' to start a mus
cum that l would be dalin' in such ex-
pinsive curiassities!'
The bankers clerk said there was not
Il dry eye in the house.-Jme GALAXY.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1870-07-01

LAST Thursday boy on farm near
Norristown lay down in field and
went to sleep. When he awoke there
was a certain numbness in his leg
which surprised him somewhat. Upon
casting his eye along the afflicted men,
Der he was surprised to observe that a
gigantic black snake had succeeded in
swallowing his big toe, and was pre-
pairing to dispose of the entire boy in
the same manner. Now, what we
want to call the attention of the society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to ami
mails to, is this: Instead of lying still
and encouraging the snake in its efforts
to satisfy its natural cravings, this de-
PRAYED and degraded outcast of bog
ljerked out his toe and climbed sudden
ly over the fence. The suffering reptile
was left there; not only discouraged by
the loss of its frugal meal, but sick at
its stomach, and mortified at the boys
outrageous conduct. How long are
these gross outrages against unoffending
dumb animals to be permitted to go
unavenged? Will not the fair women
whose tender humanity organized the
dog hospital, ,gush for the serpent Of the
field? Who will be the first to move
for the erection Of an asylum for the
prosecuted puff-adders and an infirmary
for the oppressed ra-di.capello?
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1870-07-01
Taking a Baby's Cradle for Rent.
The consequences.

An Irishwoman has recently been
tried in the north of England for the
homicide of deputy sheriff. The off,
GER entered the house to distrain for
rent which had not been paid, and find
ing nothing else of value, said he must
have the cradle in which the baby was
sleeping. The woman naturally refu.
sed to let him take it, He insisted, and
the alteration between them, thus be-
gun, was. brought to climax by the
bailiff, who turned the baby out of the
cradle, which he passed to an under-bail-
iff standing at the door. The exasperated
mother seized the offensive weapon at
hand, which was, as it happened,
rolling-pin. With this she struck the
officer two heavy blows on the head,
and as he retreated, she flung an earth
enware jug at him. This was broken to
pieces over his head. From the effects of
injuries thus received, the bailiff died
after an illness of six days. The poor
woman was arrested, tried and found
guilty of homicide by the jury, with q
recommendation to mercy. The judge
heartily acted on the recommendation
and discharged the woman to keep the
peace. In the course of the trial, the
court said, "that the distraint of the
cradle was quite illegal, and being So,
the woman used no more force than
was necessary to resist it; baiiff might
as we'll distrain shirt upon persons
back, as cradle with a child in it,.
Even horse upon which o man is rid
ing cannot legally be distrained, much
less a baby's cradle in which the baby
| lay.D
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Gl,oite poqtrp.
Where Shall the Baby's Dimple Be P

BY DIR. HOLLAND.
Over the cradle n mother hung,
Softly grooming slumber song;
And these were the simple words sho sung
All the evening long:
"Cheek or chin, or knuclKle or knee
Where shall the babys dimple be2
Where shall the angels finger rest
When he comes down to the baby's nest?
Where shall the angels touch remain
When he awakens my babe agan?'
t5till as she bent and sang so low,
murmur into her music broke;
And she paused to hear, for she could but kn ow
The baby's angel spoke:
'Cheek or chin, knuckle or knee
Where shall the babys dimple be?
Where shall my finger fall and rest
When l come down to the baby's nest?
Where shall my fingers touch remain
When awaken your babe again?"
| Silent the mother sat, and dwelt
Long in the sweet delay of choce
And then by her baby's side she knelt,
| And sang with pleasant voice:
| mot on the limb. Oh angel dear!
| For the charm with its youth will disappear,
| Not on the cheek shall the dimple be,
| For the harboring smile will fade and flee;
But touch thou the chin with an impress deep.
| And my baby the angels seal shall keep"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1870-07-01

"WHEN am in crowded car, ,"said
male advocate of woman's rights,
"and woman comes in, l think it is
the duty of some man to get up and
give her his seat. look around the
car to see if any man in the car looks
Ii Ike making move in that direction,
and when / see them all keep their
seats, l hide my face behind my news
paper, and blush for my SEX"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1870-07-01

A LITTLE girl was very fond of
preaching to her dolls. Her mother
heard her one day reproving one Of
them for being so wicked. "Oh! you
naughty, sinful child" said she, shak'
ing the waxen limbs, "you'll go to the
lake of birthstone, and you won't burn
up-you'll Just sizzle."
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1870-07-01

A PHYSICIAN examining student as
to his progress, asked him, ''should a
man fall into a well forty feet deep,and
strike his head against one of the tools
with which he had been digging, what
would have been yeur course if called
in as surgeon ?" The student replied,
"I should advise them to let the man
lie and ill up the WELL"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1870-07-01

A LITTLE four year-old child told his
father he was fool. On being repri-
manded by his mother, and required to
say he was sorry, he toddled up to the
insulted parent and exclaimed, "Papa
I'm sorry you'se a fool.n
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1870-07-01

Tom HOOD died composing-and that
too, humorous poem. He is said TO
have remarked that be was dying out
of charity for the undertaken, who
wished to urn lively Hood.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1870-07-01
THE ESPY HOTEL.
RRICK HOTEL,
ORANGEYlLlE, COLUMBIA COUNTY, Pa
ROHR M'HENRY, Proprietor.

This well known House, having been put In
thorough repair, is now open TO the travelling
public. The bar Is stocked with the choicest
liquors and cigars, and the table will be. at all
times, supplied with the deicacies of the season
No pans Will be spared TO insure the comfort oi
guests.
Orangeville, dec l0.'69-tf.
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cNistellanruus.
REMARKABLE DREAM.

Mark 7yain's Thrilling Adr0,ture, and
Long Iak acith q Sp0ok from the Old
Graveyard in Pine Street-IHere dp.
pears TO be more Truth Than Poetry
in the COnuersdtioR-H is hoped the
Famous "Thirty-one" CHl not be
Alarmed
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1870-07-01

A MAN is said TO be absent-minded
when he thinks he has left his watch at
home and takes il out of his pocket To
see if he has got time to return home 10
get IT,
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u O II X S III O II II l.,

BLooMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA.
The undersigned has taken this well known
and has put 1t in thorough repair with entirely
new furniture, &c. Every attention Will be paid
to the comfort and convenience of guests. The
bar always supplied with the best OF liquors and
cigars. Il. BENT. IA1LOh
marllT0-3m.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1870-07-01

Executors or Administrators Notice, $500
Auditors or.Assignee's Notice, $3.50.
Local notices, twenty cents a line' by the year
ten cents.
Cards I'm the "Busness Directory" column $500
per year for the first two lines and sioo for each
additional line.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1870-07-01

WHEN women come TO sit in the jury
box possibly infants may get to he erl'
ers in court.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1870-07-01
OVER the fireplace, in quaint old
mansion, erected nearly t~o hundred
years ago in Mamaroneck, the follow
ing inscription is carved in stone.
If the IL mt, put:
If the Il putting:

The present occupant of the mansion,
Hans Van Hamburg, was for long
time at loss to decipher its meaning.
The matter was brought before num-
Der of autiquarians, and finally referred
to the Tautog Club, when the following,
and probably correct, solution was CIV
en- by the Qldipus of that famous fra
ternity;
If the CRATE be empty, put coal on Isl
If the great be full, stop III putting
coal ON l:l
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RATES OF ADVERTISING. ~

one square, item lines orits equivalentin in Nom
pareil type one or Two insertions. si,5O; three
Insertions s2OO,
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BLOOMSBURY, PA, FRIDAY, JULY |, 1870
Philadelphia Directory.

FAGLE HOTEL.
227 NORTH THIRD STREET,
n. d. CUMMINGS, PROPRIETOR.
EsTABLIsHED 1893.
JORDAN & BROTHER,
Wholesale Grocers, and Dealers in
sALTPETRE AND BIRTHSTONE.
No 2lo North Third st.
Philadelphia.
c. II. HORNE. WIS. KING. J.B. sEYBERT.
HORNE, KING & SEYBERT,
WHOLESALE DRY GOODS.
No. 42l Market Street
PHILADELPHIA.
Orders filled promptly at lowest prices.s
January 0, 1868.
III. W. RANKS
WHOLESALE TOBACCO, SNUFF, AND
CIGAR WAREHOUSE,
No, no North Third Street.
Between Cherry and Race, west side.
Philadelphia.
ERANK q STRETCH,
Successors to I. II. Walter)
Importers and Dealers in
QUEENswARE, CHINA, AND GLASS,
No, 234 N Third Street,
Between Race and Vine SITS.
PHILADELPHIA.
&. 6 h, BRhssnn, sTRF,rcu. Gsnl Partners.
/. IL. WALTER. Special Partner.
J M KEPHEART' 1sIs
BARNES, BRO. q HEBRON,
HATS, CAPS, STRAW GOODS & FURs,
No SOB Market Street,
(Abovc FirhD
PHILADELPHIA.
John STROUP d CO.,
Successors TO Stroup & Brother
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN FISH.
No. q North Wharves and % North Third st
Philadelphia.
ID ICHARDSON l.. WRIGHT, JR.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
NO. lbs SOUTH SIXTH STREET.
PHoLADELPHI
oct. 22, 2,'6o-ly
"ILLIAM FISHER
WITH
| THOMAS CARSON o.
rtrcA r.,
DEALERS IN HOSIERY,
MEMS FURNISHING GOODS,
LINENS & NOTIONS
| no. is NORTH FOURTH STREET
Philadelphia.
june 4,'69-6m
w AINWRIGHT & CO.,
| WHOLESALE GROCERS,
n. L. Corner Second and Arch Streets,
| PHILADELPHIA,
| Dealers in
| TEAS, SYRUPS, COFFEE, SUGAR, MOLASSIc
RICE, SPICES BI cARB SODA, &C., DC,
a5-Orders will rec live prompt attention.
| may l0,67-tf.
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BY DIR, HOLLAND.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-12-22
GEN EEAL SCH

While the English continue to urge,
with increasing earnestncss, their desire
to settle the Alabama question on any
terms compatible with English honor,
and while Tom Hughes and his friends
even talk ct Buying up all the Alabama
claims, as voluntary peace measure, it
Is surely an suspicious time for US to
send as Minister to England statesman
Of such ability, frmness, address and
experience as General Schenck, whom
the President has wisely selected, after
trying several Senators.
General Schenck, with all of his posi-
tiveness and pluck, is not the man to
disgrace US by buster and braggadoc;o.
Neither will he be lead away from the
main objects of his mission by social at
tentions or toadyism of any sort. He is
not the sort of man to be dined out of
his principles or to become the victim
of mutual admiration speech making.
He viii present the claims of his country
with tact, moderation and due regard to
international courtesy, but will not lower
our just demands one hairs breadth to
please anybody.
The President has not made a filter
appointment to a high Office since his
Inauguration.
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SENATE, Dec. l5th.-A bill was pass
ed allowing supernumerary army officers
to be detailed as instructors in colleges.
Another bill was also passed amending
the act for reducing the army by sub
shutting the lst Of July, 1871, instead of
the LIST January, as the time for muster
ing out supernumerary oflicers-Several
bills were introduced and referred, when
Senator Schurz, of Missouri, proceeded
to address the Senate at length in favor
of his resolutions declaring that political
disqualification should cease. as the
necessity which dictated them no longer
exists. At the conclusion of the speech
the Senate adjourned.
Much amusement was created here at
the very positive statement of the st.
Petersburg correspondent of the INDIE
rendence Beige, to the effect that the
President has written an autograph let
ter to Emperor Alexander, rendering him
the aid of feet Of war vessels in the
case. The statement is a pure fiction.
Neither the President nor his Secretary
have written any such letter or any thing
which could be construed or twisted in
to coloring for such statement. Some
weeks since the cable brought this res
port and it was net then deemed worthy
Of consideration. Its now more empkat-
ic form deserves an equally emphatic
denial.
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policy should be to 60 on as far as We
can safely and consistently with our duty
to the public creditors and proper pro-
vision for the Government, to diminish
these burdens upon the people, and to
throw the payment of the debt upon the
next generation, that they may share in
our sacrifices in behalf of the country.
1.-The Republican party has, by sue
cessive acts OF legislation, since Febru-
airy. 1866, reduced the tax to a sum
amounting now to about 1928, 900, 900.
It has taken hold of the tariff and re-
duced the impost duty to such stan
dard. that the revenue is less by $780,
600, 900 year than before. It has thus
made a reduction on the burdens Of the
people, up to this year, of about $780,.
100000. This at the same time that it
has, by retrenchment, by economy, by
wholesome legislation, by wise admins
tration under Gen. Grant as President,
and those associated with him. reduced
the public debt by from 5000, 600 to
$3.50, OOO,O IF this is not revenue re
form, | do not know what revenue re-
form is.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-12-22
THE VOTE IN THE STATE.

1t appears that lat, $50 votes (includ-
ing l27 for Senator Price, were cast
for members Of Congress. On this vote
the State has gone Republican by Gill
majority.
For Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton l46, o32 votes were polled, and Gen.
Samuel Fallows carried the State by
9.G26 majority,
On the question of changing the con-
sfltutlon In relation to the grand jury
system, but 63,479 votes were cast, and
the majority against it is 26,S29 The
majority would have been u, $3.50, if
Judge Miller had not been in the State.
Less than one in eight of the voters who
cast ballot for State Superintendent,
voted for the grand system-Madison
Journal.
We fail to see anything very ba6 about
that. The Democratic journals have
been blowing a perfect hurricane, ever
since the election, about their bright
prospects for 1872, which goes to show
that some kinds offolks are easy to please.
While we are simp,,y well-satisfed. the
democracy ara oyerjoyed. On the only
State officer that run. Superintendent of
Pnohc instruction, the Republican ma
Jorlty is over nine thousands very
large majority, considering the year,
the small vote, and the DETECTION in the
First District, where large portion of
the Republicans either stayed at home
or did that which was a thousand times
acorse for them. We fail to see any
lining on the fixed cloud that hangs over
the Democratic party. In fact, it is a
terrible defeat for them, considering the
desperate efforts made by them for the
Legislature. The State is to be reds.
trlcted this winter "a matter which the
democracy would be perfectly willing
to manage,-always made and provided
it they could get chance.
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A SENATORIAL SEXTON.

Wilkes Booth has an imitator and an
emulator. Senator McCreery, the newly
hedged fanatic from Kentucky, successor
of the deceased Guthrie, and colleague OF
the inhammable aud bibulous Garrett
Davis, on Tuesday preached scheme in
the United States Senate that shows an
audacity worthy of Wilkes Booth or
Payne, or their infamous progenitor,
Erastratus of Ephesus. 1t was simply a
proposition to remove the remains OF
seventeen thousand Union soldiers from
the heights of Arlington, opposite Wash.
lngton, IN order that the magnificent es-
tate, conhscated to the nation Through
the form OF tax sale) as a partial pen
atty tor the crime of treason, may be
restored to the widow of Robert E. Lee.
OF course the presence of the graves of
loyal heroes would prevent its occupancy
by the relatives of the distinguished trait
ors, for the sigh would scar their eye
balls as did the ghost of Banquo the
sleepless orbs of Macbeth. The Senator
did not say what he would have done
with the bones of the Union dead, but
he would probably have them thrown
into the Potomac or utilized to pave
Pennsylvania avenue.
The blasphemous proposition was de-
feated and flung contemporary out of
the Senate, receiving only the votes of
four Democrats. But it shows what the
Democratic party is ready to do, if it had
the power IF this is a fair indication, 1t
would play the ghoul at the mounds of
the Union dead; restore sequestered
rebel estates put widows and children
of rebel soldiers on the pension roll; add
the "Confederate" debt to our own and
pay the damages done in the South by
the war Chicago Post.
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SHERIFF,S SALE

CIRCUIT voc COUNTY.
Roswell R. Reith, Plaintiff, against Geo. W. Baker
Richard H. Hoes. Otis W. Easton, Benjamin Jones,
Oliver N. Bostwick Geo. B. Knickerbocker Valentine
Hope, Jr Charles E. Bostwlck, Erastus Corning Gill
bort c. Davidson, Erastus Corning, Jr., George B.
Winslow, Anthony g. Burnley, John Tyrell, John A.
butcher, Kellogg Sexton, Charles s. Brett, Thomas
Turton, John Sercomb, Richard Irvine Alexander
Proudft, Jacob S. Wetmore, George w. Aale, George
N. Towslee, George Barker, L. NJ. Hoffman and John
Ii. Stevens Observation-Disclosures of Foreclosure
and sale.
IN VIRTUE OF and pursuant to a Judgment rem
i dered in said Court in the above entitled action,
dated December 3D. 1854 shall expose for sale and
sell at Public Auction at the Court House in the City
of Manitowoc, Thursday, the Eleventh day of Au-
gus 1870 at the hour of 10 O'Clock of that day
the following described mortgaged premises,
much thereof be necessary to raise the amount
of said Judgment, interest and COSTS together with
expenses of sale to-wit All the following described
pieces parcels of land situat ed lying and being in
the City and County of Manitowoc and State of w is
consin, to-wit Lots No. Three f3), Four a. Five Or
Six co. and Seven % in block No. Two Hundred and
Twenty f22S) the same is laid down in the
corded plat of the City of Manitowoc, record
in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Manitowoo
County, Wisconsin.
Dated, Sheriff g Office, Manitowoc. May 21st, 1870.
4 P. MULHOLLAND.
Sheriff of Mantowoc Co.
J. D. MARKHAM Attorney for Plaintiff
The above Sale is this dav adjourned to the 1lth
day of February. 1871, at the same tine and
place.
Dated this 11th day of August. 1870.
MIST feb 11-71 P. MULHOLLAND, Sh sri6
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There seems to be no doubt that M.
Gambetta. who has been the life and
soul of the desperate resistance made bv
the French stree Sedan, has given up
even his hope of staying the tide OF
German conquest, and has begged for
peace. We learn at the same time that
Ducrot promises to make another sortie
from Paris, and thinks that if he can
take the Germans by surprise, he may
cut through their lines. But the French
must by this time have grown incredu-
lous as to the ability of their leaders to
surprise the Germans anywhere or at
any time. And when the defenders of
Paris learn that the Army of the Loire is
no longer formidable, offensive organi-
cation, that the fugitive Ministry at
Tours has again fled and sought safety al
Bordeaux, and that The sanguine Gam
beta has given up the game as lost, they
will lose heart for aggressive enterprises
and even for the endurance of the rriva-
tons of siege.
Meanwhile, Bismarck is taking good
care to gather and secure for Prussia all
the advantages of the war, before the
war shall close and give European diplo-
macy chance to talk over the acquisi-
tons of the great campaign. King
William is to be Emperor, and all the
German Kinglets are spurred up to give
in their adhesion to the new state of
affairs. The long coveted fortress of
Luxembourg is to be quietly taken, on a
convenient and adequate but shallow ex-
cuse. Alsaee and Lorraine are already
living quietly under the rule of German
civil officials. Never in the world his
tory were such splendid military man
@uvres SO preceded and accompanied by
matchless diplomatic and governing skill,
or so suborainated to great and perma
nent measures. Great is the Empire Of
Germany. and great is its creator, Count
bismarck. Chicago Eoening Mail.