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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-01-19
InactiOn.

The present Legislature met with
many promises of reform, but as yet
not a single one has been carried out
In the two weeks succeeding the open
ing of the session the House met six
times, and did not sit over eight hours
during those two weeks. No public
business was done or attempted to be
done Except members voting them
selves a library, and thus the public
time and money have been wasted.
AS result, towards the close of the
session public bills, private jobs, &C.,
will be rushed through without consid-
Grafton, and our statute book will be
loaded with a mass Of lily digested
laws. The long delay in getting to
work breeds idleness, and of course cor
ruption, and is in every respect repre-
hensible. In New York it is subject
of common complaint that the members
are getting $500 per day, and only sit
four days in the week. Our Pennsyl'
vania Solons get $1,000 per day-meet
three days in the week, and have an
average session of about ninety min.
utes
For this result we hold the Republi-
cans responsible. AS they have large
majority, and control the legislation,
they should hasten the public interests
by constant anG uninterrupted work.
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N EWS.

Dead letters contained $3,OO0,OO0 last
year.
The smallpox continues to spread in
all parts of the British Isles.
The Republican National Convention
will meet in Philadelphia, on June 9TH.
John Sherman has been elected
United States Senator from Ohio.
The ex-Empress of the French has
sold her jewelry to celebrated firm of
jewellers in London for 100000.
The Prince of Wales is daily gaining
strength, and his complete recovery is
now only point of time.
The world uses 2jO,OOO,OOO pounds of
tea each year, and us, 100000 pounds OF
coffee. China furnishes nearly all the
tea, and Brazil over one half of the cof-
| fee.
The american Register, of Paris, says
that the bids in that market for the
Washington City improvement bonds
were far in excess of the amount Offer
ed, and an allotment of 10 per cent.
only has been made to each bidder.
Gratz Brown favors the confinement
for life in lunatic asylums OF all muir
derers acquitted on the plea Of insanity.
Let this be done and the insanity dodge
will be done Brown.
The best yet. A Michigan woma n,
| the wife of an invalid, and mother of
twenty-six children, picked cranberries
enough last Fall to pay offa mortgage
on her farm.
Postmaster Henry Smith, of st.
James, Long Island, set trap gun for
burglars on Wednesday night, but for
getting the gun returned to his office
and was shot. He died Lext day.
William Wilson, of Howard county,
Ind, slaughtered a hog, which weigh
ed, dressed, one thousand and ninety
two pounds three ounces, and wants to
know who can beat it.
A. Oakley Hall, has temporarily re-
tired from the mayoralty of New York
and John Cochrane, Republican aud
President of the Board of Aldermen is
acting Mayor.
A destructive fire occurred in Read
ing on Tuesday morning destroying
property valued at $25O,0O0. The
amount of Insurance is not stated.
1t is rumored that the Government
will demand redress for the seizure O
the steamship Florida, belonging tC
this country, by Spanish war vessel
Spain will be required to make {
prompt apology, punish her officer
committing the outrage and pay tht
damages claimed.
Governor Parker, of New Jersey, Wai
inaugurated at Trenton Tuesday, il
presence of both houses Of the Legisla.
ture. Ex-Governor Randolph, II
giving up to his successor the grea
seal of the State, noticed the fact tha
Joel Parker is the first citizen of New
Jersey who has been a second time
T elected Governor of that Common
wealth.
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THE late Mr.. FISK, it is we'll known,
was no respecter of persons any more
than of principles, and spake evil of
dignities on occasion. But the Tribune
mates him when it says with irreverent
veracity that "his four-inhand usually
conveyed more spotted regulations
"than his own," and "that his box at
"the Opera House was Stunned as if
"infected by all who had any character
"to lose" Has the Tribune forgotten,
then, that President GRANT was once
conveyed in that most immaculate
"four.in-hand )" that President GRANT
safe, evidently fearing no infection and
no loss, in that lazar-box at "the Opera
House"? The Tribune has commonly
shown itself strong in the point OF
memory where politics and political
characters are concerned. Is this lapse?
Or what?
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y bill was recently introduced in the
House of Representatives in Washing.
ton to give right of appeal in ha6eas
corpus cases from final judgments in U,
S, Circuit Courts to the Supreme Court
of the United States. The law giving
the right of appeal was repealed in 1865
for partisan purposes and this bill looks
to the re.enactment of the law. AS the
rights and liberties of the people are af
fected by the existence of the law we dc
not feel sanguine as to its re-enactment
by the present Congress whose chic
duty seems to be to provide for the re-
election of Grant.
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A Missouri editor, having nominated
Horace Greeley, the veteran head of the
New York Tribune, for the Presidency,
received the fjliowiGg pointed and sig
nificant letter from the latter:
NEW YORK TRIBUNE,
New YORK, December Is, 1871.
z. DonaR, Esq, Lexington, No.:
My DEAR SIR: have yours of the
14th inst. Ihave no doubt that the policy
you suggest is that which your party
ought to adopt. They should have run
Salmon p Chase in 1893. Then, as the
result of that contest, the return of
genuine peace and thrift would have
been promoted. That policy gave you
more last year in Missouri than could
have been achieved by party triumph.
You only err as to the proper candidate.
| am not the man you need. Your
party is mostly Free-trade, and L am a
ferociou5 Protectionist. / have no
doubt that l might be nominated and
elected by your help; but it would place
US all in false positions. If L, who am
adversely interested, can see this, l am
sure your good sense will, on reflection,
realize it. You must take some man
like Gratz Brown, or Trumbull, or Gen.
Cox (late Secretary Interior), and thus
help to pacify and reunite cur country
anew.
Yours, HORACE GREELEY.
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THE Democracy insist that General
Grant is heavy load for the Republi-
can party to carry-but what would they
give to be allowed to bear our burdens
Press.
What would they have to give?
Everything of honor, justice, regard
for the lives and liberties of the people,
respect for the Constitution and the
laws, which they now have, and which
seem to find an abiding place among
the Democracy alone. 1t would hardly
be worth while to give all these to ac.
quire power perpetuated by bayonets
and bribery, and to fill the pockets Of
that animated tobacco furnace who
occasionally visits the White House
when not otherwise engaged. We're
content to let the Republicans bear
their own burdens, from Grant dowr
to FOrney. We may have the latter Oh
our hands again some day.
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MUTILATED CURRENCY.-On and
after the lst of January, 1872, defaced
and mutilated notes and fractional cur
rency, instead of being subject on re-
demption TO discount for mutilation,
will be redeemable at their full value in
new notes provided that three-ffths
Of the original proportion of such notes
are presented in one piece. The most
liberal facilities for redemption of mu,
tilated notes and fractional currency are
promised by the Treasury Department
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-01-19

RAILROAD IRREsPoNsIBILITY. The
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has
affirmed the judgmentof alower Court,
in the case of McMasters VS.. the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and
decides that when freight is shipped on
the railroad to a station where the rail-
road company has no warehouse erect,
ed, the parties interested in the freight
cannot recover from the railroad com.
pany e the freight be lost after it is
landed t the station-it being then the
duty of the parties to whom it is shipped
to look after it, This case is said to be
the first of the kind that has yet been
brought before the Supreme Court OF
the State.
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New Advertisements.
SHERIFF'S SALES.

BY virtue of sundry wris issued out of the
Court of Common Pleas of Columbia county
Pa, and to me directed will be exposed to
public sale at the Court House, in the town of
bloomsbury, ON MONDAY, the 5th day of FEB
RUAlG, 1872, at one clock p. m., the following
property to wit:
All that certain meSsuage, tenement and
house, and lot Of ground situate in Catawissa
township adjoining North street of Roberts ad-
ditiOn to the town of CatawisSa bounded and
described as follows to wit: Bounded on the
South by North Street aforesaid, on the East by
lands OF Henry HOllingshead ON the North by
lands of the same and ON the West by the pub
lie road leading from Catawissa to the upper fer
ry, together with the hereditaments andappur-
tenances.
Seized, taken into execution and TO be sold as
the property of Christianna Hunt and David
Hunt.
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In spite of the Republican promise OF
reform in the granting of lands to cor.
porations, by Congress, an official state
ment recently submitted, shows that
the quantity of land which railroad
companies will receive under grants
made to them reaches the enormous
sum of l72 2,739, ,430 acres If this is re-
form we should like to know what
the amount would have been without
reform.
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Mr.. DAWES, prominent member
of Congress, evidently is not impressed
by the honor and honesty of Congress
slonal committees. He says that they
are more guided in their decisions by
party considerations than by evidence
and justice. A cheerful comment on
the lawmakers of the land.
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HUSBANDS LIABILITY.-The prev
alent opinion that husband is legally
liable for all bills, of whatever nature,
that his wife may contract was not sus-
tanned by Judge Thayer, in P 'ladel-
phia. In a case in court the Ju Q de.
cided in favor Of husband who had
been sued by dry goods firm, for a
debt contracted by his wife. Defense
set up that defendant furnished his wife
with an ample supply of Iecessarios. In
the course of his charge, Judge Thayer
said:
SIT is false and foolish notion for
tradespeople to entertain that a husband
is bound to pay all bills contracted by
his wife. No such monstrous doctrine
is allowed in the law. Tradesmen
must ascertain the facts and the true re-
lation of man and wife before allowing
the latter to rW up bills which he is
looked to pay"
Commenting upon this exposition OF
law, which ought to be more familiar
than it is, the Philadelphia Record
thinks, that when the tradespeople
come to distinctly understand it, SO
very sensible step will have been ac
complished towards reform in the wan.
ton extravaganza and ruinous folly
which, under the meretricious impulse
of the stupid despot called fashion, sc
wastes the substance, mars the manners
deforms the persons, degrades the NOR
ais and wrecks the happiness of myriad'
of households and individuals, not only
in this community, but throughout thC
country"
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THERE'S a two-third colored Radical
majority in the Tennessee State Prison,
but they can't pass anything-not even
the walls or over the Governors veto.
Which is clearly case for Federal in
tervention.
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TWENrY ACREs OF nIMBER.

The property lies three miles from Cntawissa, on
the public road leading from that place to ElyS-
burg. The neighbUrhood good ana healthy, ana
the land in an excellent state of cultivation. No
more desirable property has been offered for
many years. ALSO, a lot of Timber land--the
undivided ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS lands OF =.
be disposed of in one piece, or in three lots OF
q
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ALSO

All that certain piece, parcel and tract of land
situate in the township Of Hemlock ia the Coun-
ty of Columbia containing 80 acres more or less
adjoining lands of Thomas j. Nanderslico on the
South, Robert Russell ON the West and North
and j. Hester Nanderslice on the East, together
with the machinery on said premises and at
tache to the buildings Including Engine &c ,
used for working of said machinery, and the
quarry situate on the said premises,
There are erected on said premises four two
story frame dwelling houses, one frame stable, q
large building for the manufacturing OF slate,
engine house, &c.
Seized, taken into execution and to be sold as
the property of the Thomas Slate Company.
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VALUABLE REAL ESTATE.
BY virtue of authority and order of the Or
ph1us' court of columbia county, tho unuer-
sig ed, administrator of thc estate OF BalScr
E-sicH, deceased, Will expose to sale by public
yenuue, ON the premises, on
SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1872.
the following described Tract Of Land, situate
i'm NluIi on township, Columbia county, and
bounded as follows. 10 wit; by lands of Georse
arl Wi.esnruen and others and the Mpucy
Road, containing
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN
ACRES,
and seventy perchcs, more or less. The Gmdroye-
mrnts Uluu tine premises are %
FRAME DWELLING ROUSE,
% good Frame Barn Fruit n well OF excellent
water: and with ten o. fifteen acres OF timb IL
hc Farm is ON the public road between JcrSev-
town and White Han, easily acc 'ssiOle. and in
good state OF cultivation. The grain iu the
ground is reserved
April. a. ID. ls1l, If the purchase money Is paid
or secured to be paid, To the satisfaction Of the
WILLIAM MCBRIDE,
Administrator.
CONDITIONS OF SALE.-Ten per cent. of one
fourth of the purchase money shall be paid at
the striking down of the property, the one
fourth less the ten per cent. at the confirmation
of sale, and the remaining three-tOurthS in one
year thereafter, with interest from the cOntir-
u. II. RINGLER,
decg07l-ts Clerk q. G.
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DOAD DAMAGES CONFIRMED

DOAD DAMAGES CONFIRMED
III NlSI, DECEMBER SESSION, 1871.
Viewers assess 10 Sam'l Rtmby, Madison SlOl %
10 q. L. Miller'S heirs Centre, b %
JOINTS, Collins Sutlil, SugarlOaf IA 10
II the public is satisfied that Justice will be
done by allowing the auoye Road damages to be
paid by the county, then We Will have nothing
further TO say. ON the contrary, IL any good
reason is given why the same should not be al
lowed we viii file exceptions to the same.
Road damage Is growing quite popular, the
question Is now is II always just, We fear II
needs a check. We nope the people IN the local
tiles in which such damage now is or herea ter
may be assessed, VIII give IL due consideration,
aud il they think any such damage should not
be allowed we hope that they will enter their
prot 81.
We win give this item for public benefit from
1880 TO 1865, period OF lB years, Columbia county
paid s3,6O2 ~ Road damage. In 1871, one year
only, II paid the snug sum of $3.50.
CYRUS ROBBINS, }
Ii. j. REEDER, : Commisrs
WM SHAFFER,
Attest-WM. kRICKBAUM, Clerk.
BlOOmsbuTg, Jan, o, ls72-2t,
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ALSO:

A certG IN tract of land situate in Locust town.
ship Columbia county, bounded on the North by
lands of Elias Thomas ON the East by lands of
Wesley Perry, on the South by lands of w llliam
Thomas on the West by lands of Elijah locum
containing ninety-siX acres more or less ON
which is erected a two-story frame dwelling
hou,e with the appurtennnces
Seized, taken in to execution and to be sold as
the property of Joseph Thomas.
AARON SMITH, Sheriff.
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Court Advertisements.
CoURT PROCLAMATION.

"
WHEREAS, the Hon. William Elwell, President
Judge of the Court of oyer and Termner and
Gcncral jail Delivery, Court of Quarter Sessions
OF the Peace pnd Court of Common pleus and on
phans Court in the 10Th judicial District com
posed OF lhc counties of Columbia, sullivan and
wyoming, and the Hon. Tram Derr and Isaac \,
Monroe Associate Judges of Columbia county
nave ISSUED their preccpt bearing date the llth
day OF september, IN the year OF our Lord ono
thousand, eight hundred and seventy ty-onp and To-
medirecicd for holdingO Court OF oyer and Ter
minor ana General Quarter Sessions of the pence
Court of Common Pleas ana Orphans Court in
BloOmshurg, I'm the county of Columbia on the
first Monday. being the 9Th day OF February.
nCNt, 20 continue two weeks.
Notice rs hereby given, to the Coroner, to the
Justices Of the Peace, and the COnstables of the
s0td county of Columbia, that they be then and
there iu their proper person at 10 O'Clock in the
forenoon of said 9TH day of February with their
records, inquisitOns and other rcmembrances To-
do those things which to their offices appert1in
TO be done. And those that are bound bv
rtcpsniNnce, 10 prosecute against the priS.
oners That are or maybe in the Jail Of the
suid county of Columbia, to be then and
there To prosecute them Shall be Just. Iu-
rors are requested 60 be punCtual in their attend
aucu, ngrCruDly tOtholrnOticeS. Dated mt Blooms
49,, burg, the a0tb day of Dec in the year
( l.. $, 7 Of our Lord, one thousand eight huu-
'-0--D' drcd and sCVenty-One and in the ninety
fourth year OF the Independence OF the United
states Of America. AARON sMIFU
IINOuAUuIr, Jan, D. ISL EhppifF
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NINkTY.YWO AZORES,

strict measure whcreon are erected a Dwelling
House. Bain ana other nutbuil1ings.
n. Ii. RINGLER, Clerk.
bloomsbury Dc - lS7l.
TERMS OF SALE Ten per cent, of one
fourth Of the purchase money TO be paid at the
striking down of the property; one-fOurth less
the ten per cent at the confirmation OF sale ;and
the remaining thrCc-tpurths in one year the. e.
after, with Interest from confir nation, NIsI.
DANIEL RAMBACH,
dec, lj'7l-ts. Executor.
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ALSO

All that parcel piece OF land situate in Pine
township, columbia county, Pennsy Ivan Ia,
bounded and described as follows, to wit: on
the West by land of Thomas Benheld, on the
North by land of John Bruner and James Green
ley on the East by Greeuley and Thomas Van
derslice and ON the South by Nandersce and
John Latten, containing siNty-fOur acres be the
same more or less whereOn is erected a small
house and stable with the appurtenances.
Seized, taken in execution and to be sold as
the property of John Applegate.
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TUESDAY, JANUBRY 80, 1872,

Mt 10 o'clock in the forenoon Of said day, the
undivided oue-,hird OF all that certain tract OF
Woodland situate in MOntUur township In said
county, bounded on the north by ian, : now OF
late OF Hurley " Prick, ON the west by land OF
Andrew Clark, ON the south 10y land of William
j. Eyer, and on the east by land OF Mary Clark,
containing
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SEVENTY.THREE ACRES

ana clghty-fOur perches, where0n are erected IL
bricK dwelling house, a bank barn, wagon house
a spring house and all other necessary Outbuild-
ings. There is also on the premises n tenant
house and blacksmith shop. There is also q
spring OF excellent water, Il good orchard and
fruit of all kinds, with about four acres Of Ch est
nut timber. All in excellent order and cultiVl-
ton.
The lands will be offered at the Homestead in
the order advertised.
TIE GRAIN in the GROUND is RESERVE D.
Possession of the timber tracts, Immediately
upon paying the purchase money or securing the
same to be paid. And of the other two tracts ON
the first of April, a. ID. lN72, upon compliance
with the conditions stamps aud conVevanceS to
be A. the expense of the purchaser or purchasers.
ALSO-At the same time and place the fOlo"-
ing personal property, TO wit: Four hundred
bushels of wheat five hundred bushels Of corn,
tn rec hundred bushels of oats, one hundred ana
fifty bushels of rye. Que hundred bushels OF potu-
toes, buckwheat and cloverseed, and ten tons Of
hay and many other articles of property.
q. D. l.. KOSTEN BA DER,
JOS EPH b. KNlTTLE
Administrators.
TERMS OF SALE.-Tcn per cent. of the Une-
fourth of he purchase money to be pald at the
striking d own OF the property the oDe-iOurth
less the ten per cent at the confirmation Of sale
and the remaining three. foprthS in one Ca"
thereafter, with Interest from conf rinHtiOn ntsi.
Il. Il. X iNGLER
f,t, i ~ -
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TWENTY ACRES EACH,

rs shall be deemed most eXpelient. The whole
property will be offered and the title to the one
seventh, made to the purchasers.
ALSO, will be offered tract of land adJotn"
ing II. +. Clark, lands of StoclSer IL Ginscs,
lands of L, MOnhurdt and Reeder, containing
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WIDOWS ADVERTISEMENTS.

w
The following appr1iscmcuts Of real ana pers
sOnul property set HpurttD widows of deCedents
have been filed in the office of the ReglStcr ut
Columbia county, under the Rules Of Court and
VIII be presented for absolute COnfrmation to
the Orphans Court to be held in BloomSburg in
and for said county, On Wednesday, the II davof
February, s52, AT O'Clock p. ~, OF said day un-
less exceptions to such combinations are prcvi-
Ously filed, of which all persons Interested in
said estates viii take notice:
!. Widow Of Peter Miller, late OF Locust tDVu.
ship, deceased.
.. Widow Of J1cob Harris, late Of Hcmlosl,
township, deceased.
3. Widow OF Abraham Nauhorn, late of Hem
lock township, deceased.
!. Widow Of Thomas L, Hughes late of Blooms
burg, deceased.
o. Widow of Fighter W. Bowman, late OF Or
ange township, deceased,
q. Widow OF Frederick Shangr late of Centre
township, deceased
7. WidOW of WELLINGTON II. Eut late of blooms.
burg. deceased.
;. Widow Of Moses Hartman, late Of CataWi,>4
township, deceased
O. Widowof Ephram Evans, late of Bear Creek
township, deceased.
,,...a. W. JACOBY. Register.
BloOmSDarg, Jau. >, 1872.