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which he kept to his original and only
plan. Such man could not have two
ways of doing thing, or have any pa
tience with notifications or deviations
from his plan. When walking he
slightly bends, and moves slowly along
in straightforward direction, as if try
ing to keep beo-line. His gestures are
quite angular, and he has in general
sti fl and awkward way about him. His
hair, which is grey, Is kept cut short,
q Ia mdlcontent He dresses in plain
uniform, and would not in crowd be
signalled out as If Importance. AS q
statesman, Moltke has not been with
out influence. lie had much to do with
the original development of the plan
which has led to the pleasant elevation
of Prussia. 1t was civil rather than
a military idea that moved him, even
prior to the Sohleswig. g.IIolstein war, to
advocate in the Prussian Diet the build
ing of a central power under the King
of Prussia, whose mission should be to
protect the peace Of Europe; for he
claimed that, under the States which
then had tho supremacy, there could
never be peace to be relied upon. He
maintained openly, therefore, that Prus-
sia must prepare herself to take the
lead in European affairs. He then set
on foot the famous military reorganiza-
ton by which the Prussian army has
been brought 10 its present state of per-
fection. So strongly was he persuaded
of the necessity of this policy, and so
strongly had be and his colleagues inn
pressed the Necessity on the King, that
the King determined TO push it through
even contrary to law, over the opposi-
tion of the Legislative body. When
he saw that this was likely not to sue
ceed, and that the Representatives
would not conciiate their opposition,
he resolved to abdicate entirely; and
for that purpose, had already arranged
with the Crown Prince to succeed him
in the regency Then first it was the
opposition gave way, and the recogni
zation Of the army was commenced
Moltke has long had an honorable place
in the legislative halls of Prussia and Tho
North German Reichstag and, though
saying and writing but little, he ha'
long had in view au end similar to tina
which has now, undcr his generalshlp
been reached.
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POetical.
Grandfathcr's Barn.

o don't You remember our grandfathers barn,
Where our cousins and we met TO play;
How we climbed on the beams and the seallold
so high,
Or tumbed at will on the hay;
How we sat in row on the bundles of straw.
And riddles and witch stories told,
While the sunshine came in through the cracks
at the south,
And turned all the dust into gold?
How we played hide and seek In each Granny
and nook,
Wherevera child could be stowed;
Then we made us a coach of hogshead Of rye,
And on to "Boston" we rode?
And then we kept store, and sold barley and oats
And corn by the bushel or bin;
And straw for sister to braid into hats,
And fax for our mothers to spin.
Then we played we were bddlcs, and cacsled
and crowed,
TIL grandmother in haste came to see
II the weasels were killing the old specklcd hen,
Or whatever the matter might be,
How she patted our heads when she saw her
mistake
And called us her sweet "chlcllen -deors ~
While u tear dimm cd her eye as the picture ro-
called
The scenes of her own vanished years.
How we Uttered and swung, and played meeting
and school,
And Indian, and soldier, and bear
While up on the raftcrs the swallows kept house
Or sailed through the soft summer air.
How we longed to peep int their curious nests"
But they We're too far overhead
SO we wished we were giants, or winged like the
birds,
And then we'd do wonders, we said.
nd don't you remember the racket we male
When selling at auction the hay;
And now we wound up with n kcel-over leap
From the scaffold down into the bay?
When we went into supper our grandfather said,
II he had not once been n boy,
lie should thought that tne Hessians were sack
ing the town,
Or an earthquake had come to destroy.
How the years have gone on since in grandflth-
ers barn
To pay with our cousins we met.
Our eyes have grown dim and our locks have
turned gray,
The golden, the brown and the Jet,
Yet still in my heart there's an ever green nook
Where childhood's sweet memories stay;
| And no music to me has Il charm that can thrill
| Like the voices Of children at play.
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ABOUT HYDRoPHoBIA.-Th Boston
Post, discoursing Of the dog question in
that city, says: 1.-THE time has come
for the annual and cruel prescription OF
the dogs, and for muzzling processes
and enforcement acts for real and imag-
mary offences of which they are COM
paratively innocent. Prices are set upon
their devoted heads, and they are DOOM
ed without warning to every species of
exterminating cruelty, by those who
under appehensions of canine madness
become themselves insane" This has
wider application than Boston. We
shall soon see symptoms of this species
of insanity among us; it breaks out
annually about this season though If
there be anything certain in the very
muddled subject of hydrophobia, 1t Is
that there Is no greater risk of it in hot
than in cold weather, That fact, al
least, seems to be discernable through
the fog of ignorance and superstition
that has gathered round the subject.
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ANECpoTE OF THAD. SrEvENs.-
Upon one occasion the old veteran,
(who combined the elements Of saint
and devil remarkably in his compost
tion), encountered DIR. PANCoAsT, upon
Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, when,
after salutations passed between them,
the following conversation took place:
DIR. p" Well, Mr.. Stevens, L see
you arc going back to Congress; but
you told me, the last time saw you,
that you would not be candidate for
reelection."
Mr.. S.--"Yes, believe 1 said so ;
but changed my mind. An old farmer
from the country convinced me: He
said IL ,eould be pity TO spoil a neto
IMAM ~
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THE UNITED STATES ARMY, it isre-
ported, has finally been reduced to a
peace footing, in accordance with the
act of Congress of July 10, 1870. The
regular army will now consist of one
general, one lieutenant general, four
major generals, and three brlgadier
generals, with their respective staff Or
ganizations for field service. In addition
there will be one adjutant general, one
uuartermaster general, one commisSary
general, and one surgeon general, with
their subordinates. Tho army proper is
divided into the corps of engineers, the
ordnance department, the signal corps,
ten cavalry regiments, five artillery
regiments, twenty-five infantry regi-
ments, the military academy and the
Indian scouts. The enlisted men are
80, 600 in number, divided nearly as
follows: 300 engineers, 3,G35 artillery
men, 10, 1000 cavalry, 10, 900 infantry, six
non. commissioned staff, and thirty ord
nance sergeants. The Indian scouts arc
about 900 in number, the employs o.
the Quartermaster's Department 2,5Oo
and company laundresses 100. The
total number of rations issued for enlist
ed men and attaches amount to 35,2s4
1t is anticipated that 5000 men vii
have to be enlisted to keep the army W
to the above standard.
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How TO DO UP SHIRT BosoMs. We
have often heard ladies expressing de-
sire to know by what process the fine
gloss observed on new linens, shirt bos-
oms, etc., is produced, and in order to
crafty thems we subjoin the following
receipt for making gum arabic starch;
Take two or three ounces ofgum arabic
powder-put it into pitcher, and pour
on it pint of boiling water, according
to the degree of strength you DESIRE
and then, having covered it, let it stand
all night. In the morning pour it care
fully from the dregs into clean bottle
cork it and keep it for use. A table
spoonful of gum water, stirred in {
pint of starch that has been made il
the usual manner, will give two lawns
(either white or printed) u look of new
ness when nothing elseca restore then
after washing. 1t is also good (mucl
diluted) for thin white muslin and bob
met.
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Lightning Conductors.

A lightning conductor is always made |
of the metal, and of the metals which |
are available the choice lies between
iron and copper. Iron has the advan-
tage of less cost per pound; in all other
respects copper is better. Copper is the
better conductor, is easier wrought into
form, and is less liable to rust. The
conducting power lies in the surface
tube is as efficient as solid rod of the
same diameter, and strip or ribbon
which presents the same amount of
surface is equal in power.
The ribbon form of conductor is evil
IDENTIFY the most economical in the
amount of metal and it has beside other
evident advantages 1t is more com
pact for transportation, joints are more
easily and perfectly made in it, it can
be put up with less labor and more Sc
curely than q solid rod, and when erect
ed it is less in the way and so less liable
to injury. As so little metal is required
in the form of a ribbon we can afford to
use copper. For these reasons we pre-
fer copper ribbon conductor to any
thing else which is in use.
As to insulating the conductor from
the building, the question is of little
Importance. Good insulation, if it
were desirable, is wholly impracticable
Those who make great ado about glass
insulators, ought to try few expert
ments with an ordinary electrical ma
chine, and better understand the nature
Of lightning. A lightning conductor il
properly constructed and put up, will
furnish the most direct road for all the
electricity which can get into it at it
pointed end.
The most important point to be at
tended to in setting up conductor il
its connection with the ground. Unles:
a proper connection is made, the con
ductor is worse than useless. There art
many cases on record where there wa
insufficient provision for the escape o
the lightning and it struck the houses
doing great damage. In cities the con
, ductor should terminate on the gas an
water pipes, care being taken that tn
ioint has rs much surface rs the COZ
: ductor. Where there are no water {
gas pipes the next best thing is to lea
the conductor to Il stream of water
! to we'll which is supplied bya sprins
Ordinary cisterns are not sufficient, g
:. the wood or cement of which they ar
made might not allow the electricity t
pass through them fast enough. Whe
there is no body of water near at han
=, the lower end of the conductor may |
, attached to a plate of metal of sewers
+. square feet of surface or to rods or striI
a few feet long, laid horiz )ntally in tn
+ nearest moist earth.
"a The conductor should present II
, same amount of surface at all parts
its length; if any part of it be marrow
@ er, which often happens with old-iasl
:, ioned rods at the joints, it is but lit
!, better than if it were at every 9th
=, part of the contracted size.
n If a building be in length two
- three times its width it should have
least two conductors, for reasons whit
IA are sufficiently obvious. There are cas-
-, on record of churches which have be-
- struck, al the rear end while the spi
II was provided with an efficient condu'
n. Scientific american.
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Executors or Administrators Notice, $500
Auditors or Assignee's Notice, s2.50.
Local notices, ten cents line.
Cards in the "Business Directory" column, $40
per year for the first two lines, and slOo for eac
additional line.
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NEW COAL Y A II ID.
lN TIE undersigned respectfully inform the
citizens of Bloomsbury and Columbia county,
thai they keep all the different numbers oistove
coal and selected lump coal for slnlthing purpo-
ses, on their wharf adjoining M'Kelyy, Neal
Co.'S Furnace; with good pair OF Bufal9 scales
on the wharf, to weigh coal, hay ana ~ straw ",
Likewise a horse and wagon, to deliver coal To
those who desire II. AS they purchase large
amount OF coal, they intend tokeep superior ar,
ticle, and sell at the very lowest prices. Please
call and examine for yourselves before purchas-
Ing elsewhere j. w, HENDERSHOT,
AUGUSTUS MASON.
THE undersigned will take in ex-
l. change for Coal and Groceries, the following
named articles ;--Wheat, Rye, Corn, Oats, Pota-
| toes, Lard, Ham Shoulder and side meat, Butter
Eggs, Hay, &c, at the highest cash prices, at his
| Grocery Store, adjoining their coal yard,
| Bloomsburg Mar. 10, ,'69-ly
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JOB PRINTING
Columbia County Official Directory.

President Judge-WILLIAM ELwELL.
Associate Judges-IRAM DERk, ISAAC =. Mon
ROE
Irothonotar1,, ,dc.--WELLINGToN II. ENT.
Register C Rccorder-WILLtAMsoN Ii. JACoBY.
District AHOrncy-E. X. KELLER.
Sher(D-AARoN SMITH,
SurpcUOr-ISAAC DEWITT.
1redSurer-DAyID IowENBERG
COnnfsSioners- WILLIAM O.. QUICK, CYRUS
RoBBINS, HIRAM j. REEDER.
Commissioners C2crk-WILLIAM KRICKBAUM,
duditors-U. j. CAMPBELL, a. j. ALBERTsoH,
DANIEL LEE.
tbroncr-JoITN ID. hoUCK.
jury COnimSSioners-IsAAo MCBRIDE, JONI Nc
ANALL.
County pctintendent-CuARLEs q. BARKLEY.
Bioom Poor DiStrict-D Directors, s. II. MILLER,
WILLIAM KRAMER, Bloomsburg, and JOHNSON
KELLER, Greenwood, CHARLES CONNER, Sec'y.
Bloomsbury Official Directory.
bloomsbury Banking C0--JoHN A. FUNSTON,
President ii. H. GRoTz, Cashier.
First National Bunk-CHAs II. PAXTON, Pres't.,
j. Il. TUsTIN. Cashier.
Columbia COUNTY Mutual Saving Fund and Loan A s.
socidtion-E. II. LITTLE, Pres't, G. W. MILLER,
Btoonsburg lBUiliin1 and Sdping Fund Assoc,d-
hOn-JoHN THOMAS, Prest., J, u. robson. Sec.
bloomsbury Mutual Sdring Fund association
j. j. BRowER, President, NJ. WHIrMoYER, Sec'y.
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The free vote, however, enables any |
considerable number of voters in con-
stituency to obtain representation for
themselves by their own votes. If two
persons are to be chosen, a minority of
votes exceeding one-third of the cOnstit.
uency can elect one candidate by cum
ulating their votes upon him ; if three
persons are TO be chosen. a minority ex-
ceeding one. fourth can elect one, and
when the number to be chosen is greater
than three still smaller proportional
minority can obtain representation.
And it is inevitable that in practice all
parties entitled to representation will
concentrate their votes upon cne or
more candidates according to an esti-
mate of their relative strength, and
avoid in all ordinary cases the polling
of fruitless votes.
In the case of Chambersburg borough
with SO Republican and 52t Democrat
ic voters, it is certain that each party
will nominate and elect three Council
men. Each will vote for three candi-
dates, and no candidate will be beaten.
The tickets used will be in form:
A.............. .............................z VOteS
| B..".......................... votes
| C.........,.............,. votes
and they will be quite as conveniently
prepared, poled and counted, as tickets
in the old form.
In Turbotville borough, small town
with but 33 Republican and 50 Demo-
cratic voters, the minority will vote for
but two candidates for Council and the
majority for four. Here the tickets will
differ in form, the minority ticket be.
ing:
| .........,................."3 votes
B."............."."..... votes
while the majority ticket will be one
and one-half votes TO each of four can
didates.
In Mount Carmel borough, with ITO
Republican and but 40 Democratic
voters, the minority will be compelled
to concentrate upon one candidate fol
council and cast for him 6 votes each
, while the majority will vot g for five o
} six.
Ordinarily, councils elected unde
this plan will stand politically 3 to 3, o
1 to =. In rare cases the division vii
g be to l, or possibly a third party @
interest interposing in the election ma
: carry one or two cOuncilmen. But i
! all cases we will have las nearly as ma
# be) each party or division of voters
@ a borough fairly represented in the LEI
@ islature of the town according to i
If magnitude or number of voters.
l. By the recent borough supplement
c and according to the Bloomsbury &C
1t any vacancy in borough council is
d be filled by the Court of Quarter Sc
ot sions of the proper county by the al
te pointment of an elector of the boroug
is "who shall have voted for the council
it man whose place is to be filled" Thu
IS. the proper division Of power in a coul
st ell, as determined in the election of
o. members, will be at all times duly pr
served. q.
90 In commenting on this subject Il
tv World says;
;nr In the passage by the Pennsylvan
10. Legislature of an act extending the sy
A tenn of cumulative or free voting to
in the borough-or as we would say, toy
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In commenting on this subject the
World says;
In the passage by the Pennsylvania
Legislatureof an act extending the sys-
tenn of cumulative or free voting to all
the borough-or as we would say, town
council--elections throughout the State,
another great step has been taken to-
wards a truer representation than that
heretofore known to our electoral law.
In New York, 1t is true, we have, by
means of that judiciary amendment
which the people adopted when reject
ing many other constitutional changes
proposed by the State Convention o
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BY special acts passed at the session
Of 1870 the free vote was applied to the
borough of Berwick, in Columbia coun-
ty, and to the boroughs Of Sunbury,
Shamokin, Mount Carmel, Northum-
berland, Milton, McEwensville, Tur-
botvillc, and Watsontown, in North
umberland County; in each case to the
choice of eouncilmen, and in some to
the choice of all borough officers when
ever it can be used. 1t was also applied
to the choice of poor directors three in
number) in two poor districts in the
same counties.
At the recent session of the Legisla-
| ture it was further applied by special
enactments to the populous boroughs of
Chambersburg and Uniontown 1.-THE
county seats of Franklin and Fayette
counties), and to the new boroughs OF
Riverside and Snydertown in North
cumberland County. a bill for the
choice of school directors Throughout
the State upon the new plan also passed
the Senate unanimously, but was no
, acted upon in the House. The Stat
Superintendent of Common Schools /
, strongly in favor of the change, and i
will no doubt be made at the next ses
, sion. Boards of school directors consis
, of six members, two of whom are che
: sen annually for threeyear terms.
c THE FREE VOTE IN NOMINATIONS.
r An interesting application of the fre
2 vote has been made in Columbia Count
J to the nomination of candidates fc
d office, or rather to the choice of del
}. gates to nominating conventions.
,, Democratic county convention held
D. December last established the free vo
a by rule for the choice of all conventio
n delegates in future. There are tweni.
IS seven election districts In that count.
v and each district is allowed two, thre
N or four delegates, in proportion to
IN party vote. Thus county conventi(
b. of -sixty.seven members is made u
which will represent the whole mass
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VETERINARY.

VETERINARY.
AUGUST FRIEND,
late from Germany, ofiers his services to the
public as n celebrated
HORSE AND COW DOCTOR,
and all other animals, for which his charges are
moderate. lie can always be found east side OF
Berwick road near +. II. JacOby's Marble Yard
Bloomsbury, May H. lS7l-ly,
u this ONCE
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COL. DEM. -. VOL. XXXV NO. /

the Democratic voters in the county
instead of but part, and each candi-
date will be enabled to exhibit his just
popular strength in convention. The
expense of canvass of the county by
candidates will be reduced fully two
thirds, and pure and satisfactory NOM
nations may be expected to result. 1t
being evident that reform in the legal
elections will not be sufficient unless it
shall be accompanied or followed by
reform in the primary ones also, this
experiment of the free vote in the
choice of nominating delegates is most
important and timely.
THE PLAN EXPLAINED.
To those unfamiliar with the free
vote some explanation and illustration
of it may be necessary In order to its
full comprehension and approval by
them. Under the old plan OF majority
voting, whenever two or more persons
are to be elected at one time to the same
Office and for the same term of service,
the law assigns to the voter as many
votes as the number Of persons to be
chosen, and then commands him to dis
tribute them singly among candidates.
1t restrains and prevents him from eX-
ercising his own judgment as to the
manner of polling his votes, and, in
fact, undertakes to judge for him and
to determine in advance what will be
under all circumstances, judiciou.
exercise of his right of suffrage. But
in this it must blunder extremely and
constantly. For as the law maker can
not know the future, cannot from sheer
ignorance take into exact account it
ever changing conditions, his injunction
or command to the voter must be pure
ly arbitrary, and must be often or com
monty unsuited to the circumstances t
which it shall come to apply. Henc
the virtual Acknowledgement and actua
non representation of a large part of tn
voters is common fact in all constitu
encies, large and small, throughout thu
country, the inevitable consequences o
which are deeply injurious and trul,
deplorable. Misgovernment, injustice
violence, corruption and discomfort, ar
created and increased by an unnece;
sary and absurd restriction upon ele,
toral freedom; by wholly gratuitou
and impertinent interference of la
with the free action of the citizen b
an open and palpable violation Of til
principles of self.government upo
which all our political institutions al
founded. Only when a constituent
shall be unanimous, or nearly 50,
opinion and action can the the enforce
e distribution of votes singly among Il
Il whole number of candidates opera
q Justly; in all other cases it must rest
n in the non-representation of part
d the electors, and in consequent injusti
and evil.
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Espy.

u II. REIGHARD,& BRO. dealer In Dry Goods
ID Groceries, and general Merchandise.
EsPY STEAM FIGURING MILLS, C.s. Fowler,
ia Proprietor.
i ID. WERKHEISER, Boot and Shoe store and
manulaetory shop ON Main Street OPP
w W. EDGAR, susquehSnns Planning Mil
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1871-11-16

SECRETARY OF THE CONVENTION. We
have seen a circular signed by Gov. Price.
Hon. +. Matthews and other leading men
Of Greenbrier county, recommending Col.
B. H. Jones, Of Lewisburg, as q proper
person to DO chosen as Secretary Of the
Convention. Col. Jones undoubtedly pos.
sesses the Jefersoniau qualifications for Of.
fee, "he is honest capable aud faithful"
and we should be pleased to see him elect
cd to that important and responsible office.
With such support as Governor Price and
the other gentlemen who endorse him, we
cannot we'll SEQ how he can fail to DO sue.
cessful.- Martinsburg Salesman.
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Up And at Them,

The time for argument is past, and the
time for stern, determination, Jealous act
ion is at hand! The democrat or conser.
vative who is not, at this late day, ready
to put bis shoulder to ths wheel and help
to push along tho democratic wagon on the
road to victory is likely to fall away from
the faith and embrace the principles Of
consolidation and despo'ism. Let every true
man, then, who has not forgotten the time
when ho was prescribed aud hunted down
as rebel and traitor. denied the iuest.
Unable and iua'ieuable right Of the ballot,
esteem tia sweet aud just revenge to de-
feat the party. which would now, il they
could end prete1t for the foul iuiquity
rob US Of our most sacred rights. as they
did only a few years ago!-Ffsderick
md. Citizen.