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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-21

TIN disciples of the "blOody
shirt" in their platform say that il
the South votes the Democratic
ticket, it will be an act of section
alism and good cause for war, but
If they vote the Radical ticket
everything will be right. And YET
they pretend that this is a free
country and a country Of free bal.
lots, and yet who threaten the peo-
pie that if they vote their senti.
ments they may look for fire and
sword.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-21
AUCTION.
Members of Building and Loan Com
panisS and ALI Others.
UNRESERVED SALE
Three Beautiful Building Lots al
Auction,

WE HAVE INSTRUCTIONS TO SELL,
Porter avenue, in front of Captain Lenow's,
being lots 5, 6 and IL Of Porter's subdivision
of lot 81, Willoughby Williams tact, each
lot 100 feet front by 200 feet deep. Among the
inducements TO buy these lots we may men
ton health, good neighborhood, convenience
to street cars, exemption from city taxes, and
on SATURDAY, JUNE oath. at IL o'clock
southwest corner of Main and Madison SITS.
Terms Half cash, half in IL months, with
6 per cent. interest.
89.i0O IRRELEVANT & CO., Agents.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-21

The subscription price Of the PUBLIC
LEDGER is So per annum for the Daily,
and 50 per annum for the weskly-POSt
age free.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-21

A DAUGHTER Of General D. H,
Hill has been married in Charlotte,
N. G., to q nephew of Stonewall
Jackson.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-21

Of success. This cannot be done
SO effectually in any other way as
by the nomination of Mr.. Tilden.
In the minds of the people he is
the representative of reform. His
nomination would be regarded as
the espOusal of the cause of reform;
while his rejection would be looked
upon as an abandonment of that
cause; and, we apprehend, it would
prove fatal to the hopes ofthe party.
P%ITTsBURG Post: "The Repub-
licans declared in their platform
that they were as ever opposed to
subsidies to corporations. To show
what they meant by this resolution,
they have nominated a man for
Vice President who, as chairman
of the Pacific Railroad Committee,
reported all manner of subsidy jobs
and was one of the most active
leaders in forcing them upon the
of Congress. So to the
end Republican practice turns its
back in contempt on Republican
professions.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-21

A Western man says that figures won't
lie unless they happen to be on a gas
meter,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-21
Inst OF PRIZES.

Touth and Twentieth Coupons in PrOpOrtiOn)
, 1876-05-31

A ROMANCE OF THE STAGE.
(trom The Eup. Mai}.)

The latest matrimonial romance of the stage
is rather more romantic than the average Of
these q8aircs de- caar, The leading partner
Of a WclI-hnown and very wealthy firm of
London solicitors, while enjoying an evening
at a theatre, was smitten with the charms G.
a certain lady Of the corps de ballet. Some.
thing happened. The rich lawyer-not over
young himself, but with intentions strictly
honourable-obtained an introduction to the
fascinating c~oryph6e, aud very soon the &C.
quaintance ended in marriage-he over sixty,
she under twenty. The handsome girl belonged
to a humble family of eleven children, and by
one of those outbreaks of generosity which
elderly solicitors so rarely commit, he has un-
dert~kcn to support the whole batch of them.
The new wife, too, must be fitted for a position
unto which she was not born and the
boating husband has accordingly engaged
masters Of " all The accomplishments " to give
her lessons. Mr.. M-occupies q splendid
mansion in the West End, and employs half
d dozen servants to minister to his wants. On
certain days, it is said, the ex ballet girl, seated
in an elegantly appointed carriage, drives her
pair Of ponies far away from the West End to
her mothers abode in--Street, an event
which pro iuces no small sensation among the
gossips in that humble neighbourhood. The
best Of it is the lady is worthy of the good
fortune which has SO unexpectedly fallen
to her lot.
, 1876-05-31

new idea to mankind, and have never fail
ed to show that the human imagination.
although it can alter and r~e-arrange, is abso-
lutely powerless to create. When ghost
stories thus bear the trade. mark oftheir hue
man origin, and when they are in their ma
ture undistinguishable from occurrences
with which every physician is familiar, it
is gratuitous to attribute to them a superna-
tural origin, and even those who cannot
themselves explain them will be led by
common sense to feel that they are capa~
BILE of being explained. The very capri
ciousness and the utter uselessness of the
alleged occurrences will forbid any person
of d%ecently reyerent mind to attribute them
to a Divine origin i; and in most cases they
are the manifest results Of local legends,
acting upon brains commonly besotted by
ignorance and almost always unnamed by
terror or physical disease. The large
tribe of nocturnal apparitions, the GHOSTS
seen in "haunted" bed~chambers, NAV
with some confidence be relegated to the
category Of ''suggested" dreams, which
terminate a troubled sleep by a paroxysm
Of fright, and leave the sleeper with an
impression of having seen something.
which is so vivid that it is difficult for
the superstitious to shake it off. Eyerybo.
dy knows that it is not a always easy, on
first waking after a vivid dream, to be
quite sure that the phantoms of the half
resting brain had no objective existence.
, 1876-05-31

Correspondence gtde Demero1a Coloaist.)
SIR,-I noticed in your report of yes
terday'S proceedings Of the Court of
Policy that the Honorable Attorney
General and the Honorable William
Russell drew attention to the present
breed Of Creole horses. One honorable
member suggested that a heavy tax
should be imposed on entire horses of
inferior description and small growth
another proposed the grant of a money
honOrarlum for improving the breed.
In Jamaica there is in force a law to
the following effect -
"No person shall put to pasture, or
suffer to run at large, at any common,
savannah, or waste ground, any stoned
horse not OF the height of Is hands high
and 3 years old and upwards, DC, on
pain OF forleiliug the horse.
"Any person who finds any such
stoned-horse, at pasture, or running at
large, may seize and take it before q Justice
Of the Peace to have it measured in view
OF such Justice, and if not found to be Of
the height, the horse shall be forfeited 10,
and the property Immediately vested IN,
the person taking up the same ION his
making oath az to the time and place
where the horse was taken up) unless Jhe
owner, OF SOME person on his behalf,
tender to hj1 one pound sterling for each
horse, IN WI caee it shall (being FIST
castrated ana owner paying the
pense) be restored"
The act also 2lls other provisions
-rplativn to horses uHnrino from IN
, 1876-05-31

Oratory, the liverpool Post remarks, is
not always a family characteristic, but
fortune has been lavish in its bestowal of
the gift upon the domestic circle of Mr..
Joseph Arch. The other Sunday a daugh-
ter OF the well-known agriculture labourer
made her debut as a preacher at Warring~
ton and the young lady, although still
under twenty, acquitted herself success
fully. She appears to have g got through"
the sermon without making herself in any
way ridiculous, ard this of itself is an
achievement of which, perhaps, few lady
preachers can boast. In vindication of
the propriety of permitting women to
occupy a pulpit, Miss Arch said she could
conceive of no higher responsibility than
that of saving souls, and suggested that
the angels themselves would not less
caste by such an enterprise.-Iid.
, 1876-05-31
WHITE CRYSTALS VERSUS YELLOW
SUGAR.
Produce Markets Reuew.)

MIR Russell of Leomoro, Demerara, makes
. statement with which wecannot altogeth-
or agree he says that such is the prevailing
taste for yellow sugar that the sulphurous
gas and lime method af DELEGATION has
been adhered to, and hat when the taste of
the consumer is educated to appreciate
pure white sugar, the sulphurous gas will
give place to carbonic acid gas, when he
has little doubt that the yield of sugar will
be increased. Now there is no necessity
to educate the British public with regard to
white sugar; if they can get it bright and
sparkling they will use it readily, as is PROV
cd by the large annual consumption Of the
fine crystals made by the refners. The fact
il. that the sugar sent here from the COL
oRies as white. is generally ola dull grey
colour. and the consumer will naturally
sR4ya q bright yellow Sugar in preference
to, ene of dunsightly, appearance. But if
bright sparkling Crystals similar to those
, 1876-05-31

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G HOST 7 ORIES.
From the Times.)

No ghost has ever been described as pre-
senting an aspect or suggesting an idea
which wa not manifestly derived from the
occurrences of this world, and which was
not. In all reasonable probability, within
the previous knowledge of the ghost seer.
The marVels of old women, and the doings
of the latest s~piritualistic ssamcs are all alike
in this, that they have never introduced a
, 1876-05-31

population of only 10000, can place some
$4,000, men under arms, half of whom
would be instantly available for service
outside the petty p%rincipality. The Mon
t~enegrins combine with their military or
ganization the older organization by clans
and families so natural in a little patriar-
chal State of mountaineers settled from
time immemorial in the same valleys. The
entire territory is divided into eight Nahies
or districts, each under a Serda or COVER
nor, and is inhabited by 80 clans, who are,
again, subdivided into families, intensely
proud of their pedigrees. The Army
consists of 80 battalions, of S to II
companies each, according to the number
OF families of which it is composed, each
company including the men of a single
family, and the mutual affection and
emulation OF klnsmen are thus enlisted in
the directest way in the defence of the
beloved native land. The artillery Of
Montenegro consists of % mountain guns,
and the requisite military instruction is
provided for the Montenegrin officers at
st. Petersburg, where q certain number OF
the noblest youths are always under train
ing. Servia, with a population Of a
million and a half, is almost as COM
pletely organized. Possessing the I'M
mense advantage arising from the absence
Of any foreign element Of impor-
lance, the Servian Government can rely on
the enthusiastic ardour of a race of tail,
sinewy soldiers, which, whether under Serb
or Austrian colours, has always displayed
the very first military qualities. The
Regular Army is small being in fact only
the school In which every Servian has to
pass during two years on reaching his
eighteenth year, but the First Ban of the
National Guard alone includes $4,000
troops of the line, 1900 cavalry, and 43
batteries of artillery, numbering 258 guns
and 5000 artiIlerymen. These are all
thoroughly good troops, especially for
mountain operations and Ia petite gae32e, and
decidedly superior to any Turkish force Of
the same number. There are, besides, the
National Guards of the Second Ban, who
are hardly inferior, including all Seryians
between SO and so years Of age, who
amount to upwards of 10000 men with
IS batteries Of artillery, There is a GER
tain want of officers, although there is a
good training-college at Belgrade, while
the officers of the general Staff are carefully
educated abroad. Herr Won Wickede
thinks, however, that this want would be
quickly supplied, in case of need, by the
number OF Russian officers whose Cauca-
sian training would fit them admirably for
the conduct of hostilities in Servia. On
the whole, then, it would appear that,
excluding the sodentary forces of Monteoe-
gro and Servia and the entire Roumanian
Army, nearly 10000 troops, of a quality
very much superior to all the Turkish
troops save a few regiments d'6Lite,
and fully equal to the latter, would
be available, "within a fortnight" for
q contest with the decrepit Empire Of
the Ottomans. Unless Austria, ceding to
Magyar pressure, should hamper the
SerVian attack, it may be doubted vile
Their any further force would bo requir-
ed to settle the larger part of the Eastern
Question.
-ta@ 10000
, 1876-05-31

made by refners were sent here from
Demerara, there would be no difficulty
in finding a ready sale for them. SO far as
we have heard however, charcoal seems
necessary to produce absolute whiteness.
, 1876-05-31
MISS ARCH IN THE PULPIT.

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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-11-24
NOW DON'T.

Our readers have heard of "doubting
Thomas," but the positive Thomas of the
DanvilIe Lnteligencer, in speaking of the
Congressional vote, after giving some in
accurate figures, launches the following -
This is splendid result, as it shows an
increase in Collins majority over that of two
years ago of 1885. In Columbia county he
Vas cut BAT votes through the combined ef-
forts Of the C5lumbian's clique which paper
refused to hoist Mr.. Collins name, and the
effort of Mr.. Waller the Radical candidate
who resides in that county. In this county
Mr.. Collins falls behind Tilden's vote 81,
which comes from the same influence that
prevailed In Columbia. = ,
This Is true, except that the COLUMBIAN
I'D hoist his name, and every ticket contain
Ing It was printed at this Office. Instead of
being cut 347 votes in this County, he ran
behind only 243 votes, result due to the
fact that Mr.. Waller was an old and respect
ID citizen of the county, and identified with
il progress. Mr.. Collins is stranger to
the mass OF our people, and this compli-
nentary vote was given a prominent man
when it could not harm Mr. Collins. Again,
Instead of Mr.. Collins running 81 votes be-
hind Gov. .Tilden in Montour, it was only 81
To show the fallaciousness ofsuch reasoning
1t is only necessary to add that Mr.. Waller
gained l57 more votes in Luzerne than Mr..
Collins, as compared with his vote in 1874.
Try again, Thomas and see ifyou can at
least give the correct figures of your own
county next time.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-11-24
NOTICES.

L EIlN Gh > NOlliES.
III Notice Is hereby given to all leg0tees, credi-
tors and other persons Interested I'm the estates Of
the respective dccedents and minors, that tho fol-
been llcd IN the ullcc Of the Register Of Columbia
county ana VII be presented for confirmation ion ana
BlnOmsburg, on Monday, the 4th day OF December
1910, at O'Clock, p. m. on said day:
l. 7 he first and final account of John T.. Fowler,
guardian OF the person and estate OF ncndt lsun
township, deceased.
?. The first and nnal account Of Joseph W Eyes,
Guardian of the person ana estate OF Priscilla l..
Kester, u minor child Of Arnold Kcster, late Of
Greenwood township, deceased
3. The account Of Martin V. b. Works, Guardian Of
dren Of William Il. CaudCrman, late OF Jordan
township, lycomlng county, deceased.
4. The final account Of Samuel DiettCrlch, Guardian
Of the person and estate OF Mahalo Boone, minor
enid OF Benjamin Boone late OF Centre township,
deceased.
T. The account Of william Lougcnbcrger, one Of the
township, deceased.
a The account of Reuben Fahringer. Administrator
ceased.
I. The first and final account OF stephen Crawford
ESecator Of Andrew Crawford, late OF MI. Pleas
ant township, deceased.
s. The first and final account OF Andrew Taubach,
Administrator OF Peter Fritz, late OF Sugarlonf
township, deceased.
o. The account Of N.Y. -. Kline Administrator OF
Nathaniel Orerdorf, late OF Catawlssa township,
deceased.
10. The account of Martin V. b. Kline, Admlnlstra
tor Of Elizabeth lllshe, late Of Montour township,
deceased.
H. The account Of Peter Brurlcr Executor Of susan
Kinney, late OF the Town OF BoOmsbutg, deceafed.
u The account of Matthias Boston and Dyer l.. Cha
pin, Administrators of John Boston, late OF Fish
ingcreek township, deceased.
49, The account Of A. c. Smith, Admin ;trator Of
John Smith, late Of Madison township, deceased
Il. The first and ina account of John McAnall EN-
eCutOr OF Hannah Baird, late Of the Borough OF
Berwick, deceased.
Registers ONCE, w. II. JhCOBY
Bloomsburg, Nov. 10, 1867 Register.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-11-24
SECOND WEEK,

A. W. CrCamer VS. John Keller.
Samuel Leby vs.. H. $. MARI
John a. jackson ct al vs.. Ell StootZel,
Christian j. Ash vs.. VIM. Ikeler.
Freas Brown VS.. W. E. Barrett s admr.
Theodore Y. IIayman VS.. q. w. CrevCng ct al.
G. B. Brockway ct al. use vs. VIM. Ycager ct. al.
Peoples Fire lhs. Co. OF Pa, VS.. s. II. Miller g. Son.
Orwgsburg Boot and Shoe Manufacturing Co. VS..
Fowler Heller.
Christ Church OF COnyngham VS.. Abba Phillips.
Henry c. Conner VS. Enamel Corners administra-
tor.
Samuel j. Conner VS.. Enos L. Fowlers admnstra-
tor.
q. H. Fowlcr's Administrators VS.. Enos L. FOwlerS
Administrators.
David Yoos VS.. John Tghm!ller.
Sarah Comstock vs. William less's Administrator
Sarah A. Petrlken VS. Lndley W. Wooley.
Thos. Fry'S admr VS.. VIM. Fry
f. E. BrUcEway's use VS.. Abram Kline.
Joseph p. Conner vs. Enos L. Fowler'5 admir-.
Evan Franklin VS.. Sharpless narman.
VIM. unger VS. W.n. Staley.
Mary G. Vanderslice's use VS. Abram Snyder.
Daniel KOstenbauder vs.. Casper |. Thomas.
q. H. Fowler'S admrs. VS.. Lavina Fowler
g. H. Fowler's admr's. VS.. Lavina Fowler.
VIM. NJ Reber VS.. Columbia County.
Elizabeth Klingermans admrs. VS.. David Il. Hover.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-11-24

What does this mean? The following
order has been issued at Holiday ysburg which
to say the least is mysterious. There is no
riot or nsurrection in Blair county. The
Pdtriot learns that steps are being taken to
call out the militia of the Commonwealth.
Can it be that this is done to intimidate the
people and aid in inaugurating Hayes as
President
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH REGIMENT. Ma
TIoNAL GUARD OF PENNA., HOLIDAYS
BURG, Nov. IA, l876.-Specidk Orier No 9.
|. Company commanders will at once place
their respective commands in such condition
that they will be ready to march at short
notice should orders be received to that ef-
feet.
III. Company drill will be held at least
three evenings each week until further no
tice.
III. Commands not already supplied with
cartridges will send in their acquisitions i'm
mediateiy. BY order of James f. Milliken
colonel commanding Fifth Regiment.
9. S. Marks, Lieut.. and Adi't
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-11-24

POLICEMEN TAKE NOTICE. 1T has been
decided in Court of Quarter Sessions of
Philadelphia when citizen may legally
knock down policeman. One John Shaet
was charged with assaulting an officer who
had arrested him for not paying five cents
to a colored woman, the price of a bowl of
pepper pot.
Judge Briggs in charging the jury said /:
"'rhis arrest was clearly illegal. The col
ored woman has her only redress in civil
court, just as in the case of any unpaid bill
The arrest being therefore illegal, the prison.
er was justified in using all force necessary
to release himself and ii the officer followed
up his attempt to arrest, the prisoner would
be justified in using violence, even to the
extent of knocking him down. The officer
himself was guilty of an assault if he in
tended to take the prisoner by force"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-11-24

The New York Ereaing Post, strongly
Republican paper, contains the following
earnest and manly words concerning the
counting Of the votes in the Southern States.
Uader we head Of The Real Sentiment of
the Nation, the editor says: "lf Mr.. Til
den has a majority OF thc electoral votes, az
it was reported he had the day after the
election, the whole nation will acquiesce in
his success But If, having really such
majority, the attempt is made to count him
out, the nation will not acquidsce. The bet
ter class Of the Republicans themselves will
be among the first TO protest against the
wrong. We say this because We desire to
impress it upon the counting boards in the
several disputed States that their action
must be open, honest and above suspicion. 4"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-11-24
SOIlTH CAROI,INA.

The Board Of Canvassers on Wednesday
last, in contempt of the Supreme Court of
the State, before which tribunal proceedings
we're pending, issued certificates of election
10 all the members of the Legislature, thus
securing Republican majority and securing
the defeat of Hampton for Governor. The
Board also issued certificates of election to
the Hayes electors and to all the Republican
State ticket, and this in the face of rule is
sued by the Court, on the Board, to show
cause why they should not correct the state
ments Of the county canvassers.
The conspirators have over reached them
selves. Such fragrant contempt of court
will hardly be overlooked, and the citizens
will try every legal means of redress before
submitting to the outrageous action of the
Board.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-11-24

4. 1t will give almost complete express
sion to the popular will, for each electoral
vote will represent an actual body of voters
II fair ratio of voters or nearly one-who
have ordered it given as their own rightlul
and equal voice in the election.
.. 1t will very greatly discourage and pre-
vent unfairness and fraud in elections, by
excluding the motives which produce them.
In this respect, its superiority to other plans
of amendment is conspicuous and unques-
tionable Assuming a ratio of 0,0OO for an
electoral vote, fraudulent vote Of 10000
would mean one third of one electoral Uotc in
stead of meaning, rs now, the balance of
power in q State and control of its 1chole
electoral vote Speaking within bounds,
the effect of any common fraud in Presi-
dental election would become insignificant,
and the motive for committing it would Re
wholly removed.
g. That the plan dispenses with Electors and
Electoral ColNges-sweeps away Return
ing Boards organized for controlling instead
fserving the people-places returns in re-
spousble, safe hands ,undera rule of uniform
application-avoids fruitess assault upon
the equal voting power of the States as to
two electoral votes each-and avoids the cap
ital evil of gerrymandorng in all its posi-
BILE forms, are subordinate advantages not to
be overlooked but possibly obtainable by
other means. The plan indeed fully secures
them, but its special merits are those before
mentioned. In fact, in discouraging elec.
ton frauds and in creating a correspondence
between popular and electora! votes so that
the latter shall truly represent the former
the plan is unique and therein its chief mer.
it consists.
G. r.. BUCKALEw.
Bloomsbury, Nov %, 1876.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-11-24

The Clinton Republican, seems to be a
trihe disguised with the result of the cleo
ton, to judge by the following little extract
from its columns:
Yesterday morning broke bright and clear
upon nation of freemen; to-day we are in
the deepest valley of humiliation. Refusing
to listen to the notes of warning, sounded
far and near, the people lin a blind phreuzy)
have seen fit to defeat our candidates, and
we are compelled to say that the United
States must suffer the shame of having as
their President and Vice President Samuel
j. Tilden and Thomas e.. Hendricks. While
we confess that we are more than surprised
at this result we have the satisfaction of
knowing that many more were likewise as
tonished. And in our journey to that land
of sackcloth and ashes, yclept Salt River,
we shall have the companionship of many
good and honorable men.
If we felt that way We would move into
some other better governed land where cor
ruption is not esteemed Objectionable and
thieves are not molested. Go, brother
Kinsl, e.