The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-02-02
[BIAN AND DEMOCRAT, BLOOMSBURY, COLUMBIA COUNTY,


WE publish In another part Of the
COLUMBIAN the annual Statement of
the County Commits sioners and report of
the County Treasurer to wh ich we call
public attention.
SoMEirreverent chap has been oking
fun at the venerable editor of the Will
Transport Standard and tells how he
sent reporter on the wings of the wind
to get full particulars of an accident,
"a horse had fallen on a boy" The re.
porter arrived at the scene of the disaster
and ascertained that the horse was n
"hobby" one and smaller than the
boy! There should be law passed
making it penal offence to chaff an
editor.
NEW Past Eminent
Grand Commander, G. f. Knapp, OF
Bloomsburg, constituted Dieu lie Tem
Com mandery No. 40, Knights Templar,
of Wilkes Barre, on Friday evening Of
last week. The following officers were
elected:
Eminent Commander, Sir II. Bruce
Ricketts, GcneraliSsimO, Sir III. Il. Ged-
des Captain General, Sir II. G.. Hark-
ness; Prelate, Sir Elliot p. Klsner, Sc.
niOn Warden, Sir j. NJ. Rutter; Junior
Warden, Sir Charles ID. Lafferty; War.
den, Sir w. j. Harvey; Sword Bearer,
Sir Francis Dunsmore; Standard Bearer,
Sir q. a. Beard.
THE pleasure of living in a quiet well
behaved town like Bloomsbury is in
creased by reading of the perfect car
nival of crime which prevails in the
large cities. The New York papers of
Monday contain accounts of q suicide,
an attempt at suicide, brutal murder
Of son by his father, murder for no
known reason and a half dozen high
way robbcrio3. In view of these facts
we are willing to forego the pleasures
Of city life, and take the greater security
which the country affords.
TIE Benton Saving Fund Associa.
tion went into operation on last Tues
day, when 321 shares were paid in at
$500 per share. The money sold at
nincty.siX, premium thereby increasing
the value of the shares to 1916. Stock
can be taken at the first cost until the
last Tuesday of February, inst, after
which time the premium will be
charged. Any persons in town desiring
to take stock or borrow money can
have their business attended to as con
veniently and more profitably than if
the Association were located at Blooms
burg, by calling at the Office of Z. II.
Little, one of the Directors.
THERE has been invented lately
patent air brake for railroad cars which,
if report speak true, we trust Will not
be introduced on any road connecting
with Bloom. An exchange states that
a man tried this brake on the inclined
plane near Mauch Chunk. lie let the
car go until it was travelling at the rate
of sixty miles an hour and then applied
the brake. The car stopped instanter,
but the man kept right on, head fore
most, at q rather accelerated rate of
speed, and brought up in thicket of
underbrush. His friends having col
ected him and put him together, took
him home on board. This brake
might be used on passenger trains If
travellers were securely fastened to their
seats by log chains or other simple ar
guments against flight.
WHEN business is dull, so to work
and make business. 1t is no way to sit
down and complain OF hard times. Keep
stirring. If everybody sat down and
waited for better times they never
would come till doomsday. If Il million
people make little extra effort to re
aliZn their desires in business, hard
times, give way to their efforts, like
an ice dam before flood and currents
of business set in fresh once more. It's
the same in a small way with each
single individual. Don't help to block
the wheels of business by keeping still.
| Hard times is but another name for
stagnati0n of business, and there is no
way to make Il stagnant pool fresh, eX-
cept to stir it. If yOu try to iniuSe lie
into your business, your neighbor viii
follow your example, and you will be
surprised to see how much you can
to keep business going. Activity Is HE
stagnation is death.